Thurlo H. French and Dorothy French v‪.‬

This appeal concludes lengthy litigation over the Robinson Bar Road near Stanley, Idaho. Upon review of Judge Beebe's able
memorandum decision, we find that it admirably states the facts and applies the law. We adopt it as our own with additional
Discussion supplied in footnotes: "The case centers upon a .8-mile stretch of road extending across land of Sorensen (Robinson Bar Ranch). The stretch was
part of a segment of a historic road which segment was on the south side of the Salmon River. The segment is known as Robinson
Bar Road. The historic road was from Clayton to Stanley. Its inception in the segment was upon federal lands and predated
the patent of Robinson Bar Ranch to Chase A. Clark. The .8-mile stretch of road was not excepted from the patent. (An unusual
intrusion on ordinary symmetry appears in the patent as a rectangular strip of federal land about 33 feet wide protruding
from the federal government's warm springs area to the south into the Robinson Bar Ranch to an end line proximate to the stretch
of road within the ranch; hereinafter instrusion.) Over the years, the historic road became known as State Highway 75. In
early 1939, the segment was replaced by construction of a new segment on the north side of the Salmon River in connection
with modernization of the entire highway between Stanley and Challis. Custer County, on May 16, 1939, ordered abandonment
of most of the replaced segment and published the record of its action in the May 24, 1939, issue of the Challis Messenger,
a weekly newspaper published in Challis. The replaced segment commenced upstream at a bridge near Mulley Creek; proceeded
2 miles to the ranch; .8 miles through the ranch; and 7.6 miles downstream to Slate Creek. Warm Springs Creek is just within
the upstream boundary of the ranch. The abandoned portion was from Warm Springs downstream to Slate Creek.