Stockley v. Cissna
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This is an action of ejectment to recover some 1,200 acres of land described as situated in Tipton county, Tenn. The subject-matter of the suit is land lying substantially between the eastern bank and middle thread of an old and dried-up bed of the Mississippi river.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This is an action of ejectment to recover some 1,200 acres of land described as situated in Tipton county, Tenn. The subject-matter of the suit is land lying substantially between the eastern bank and middle thread of an old and dried-up bed of the Mississippi river. The plaintiff claims the whole of this land, as accretions to land owned by him, originally bounded by the Mississippi river, as well as under a grant from the state of Tennessee to himself for about 1,000 acres thereof, issued in 1901. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBurton, Circuit Judge
i. Jurisdiction of the court below: There was the requisite diversity of citizenship, and the jurisdiction of the circuit court was obvious, provided the locus in quo was within the boundaries of the state of Tennessee. When the territory now constituting the state of Tennessee was ceded by the state of North Carolina to the United States, the. center, of the main channel of the Mississippi river was the boundary separating North Carolina from the Spanish territory west of that river. Moss v. Gibbs, 10 Heisk. 283; treaty of Paris, Sept. 3, 1782; 8 Stat. 81; act admitting Arkansas, June 15,…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Illinois Central Railroad v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Barney v. KeokukSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Stockley v. CissnaTennessee Supreme Court · 1907
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