Person v. Johnson

G-ripein Smith, Chief Justice.

Bailey Johnson sought to quiet title to that part of the bed of Cypress Lake lying north and east of the center line.1

The questions are (1) whether Johnson’s purchase included,, as a matter of riparian law, that part of the lake bed to which he lays claim, leaving to L. K. Person as owner of land on the south a similar right, thus preventing Person from projecting his line to the north shore of the lake. In the alternative (2) it is contended by Johnson that an old fence had, by common consent, been recognized as the dividing line. Each litigant traces title to a…