Elmer A. Currie and Bernadine Currie v‪.‬

Elmer and Bernadine Currie brought this action to quiet title to a strip of land between two properties bordering the Spokane
River in Kootenai County. The district court granted summary judgment quieting title in the Curries. The neighboring property
owners, Ross and Vicki Walkinshaw, have appealed. The Walkinshaws contend the court should have granted summary judgment in
their favor because they hold a superior interest in the property. Alternatively, the Walkinshaws assert that summary judgment
was inappropriate because a contested question of material fact existed. We agree with the latter assertion and vacate the
summary judgment. We begin by reviewing the various conveyances relating to the property. Hazel Walkinshaw, Ross's mother, owned approximately
twenty acres of land bordering the Spokane River in Government Lot 10 of the Southwest Quarter of Section 7 of Township 50
North, Range 4 West of the Boise Meridian. The relevant tracts of land are depicted in the accompanying sketch.