Widdecombe v. Chiles
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hbn. H. L. Mc-Cuné, Special Judge. (1) "When the' eight-acre strip went entirely into the river, it never came back, though land may after-wards have formed within its. original lines. As long as any part of a tract remains it may gain accretion and grow larger, but after it has entirely disappeared it can never come again.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hbn. H. L. Mc-Cuné, Special Judge. (1) "When the' eight-acre strip went entirely into the river, it never came back, though land may after-wards have formed within its. original lines. As long as any part of a tract remains it may gain accretion and grow larger, but after it has entirely disappeared it can never come again. Naylor v. Cox, 114 Mo. 243; Penker v. Canter, 62 Kan. 363; Welles v. Bailey, 55 Conn. 292; Wallace v. Driver, 61 Ark. 429; Cox v. Arnold, 129 Mo. 337. (2) The accretions that were formed belong to the land which bordered on the river…
1Opinion of the CourtValliant, J.
This is an action in ejectment for possession of the northeast quarter and the east •one-half, of northwest quarter of section 22, township 51, range 30, in Jackson county, containing about 230 acres. The land in suit is the result of the land-building propensity of the Missouri river, and the question is whether it was an accretion to the north half of section 22 or the south half.
*198By the United. States survey in 1826, section 22 was a fractional section, consisting of the south half, which was a full half-section, and a small strip containing 8.68 acres lying along the north line of the…
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