Court Orders Line Resurvey
September 21, 1940
Because Piute Creek, natural former boundary line of certain portions of the Susanville city limits, frequently changes its channel, Superior Judge Ben V. Curler has ordered County Surveyor T. W. Oglivie to re-survey and reestablish the northern and western limits of the city.
The matter came to a head when the city instituted a friendly suit against the County of Lassen. The court decided in favor of the city and ordered the re-survey.
The creek was made a boundary line of the city’s corporate limits when the town was organized in 1900. Since then Piute Creek has gone on wintery rampages and shifts about like a cork on a wave.
