Blackburn v. Brown

Some thirteen years before the institution of this suit appellant became the owner by purchase of the fractional NW!4 of section 24, township 8 north, range 23 west, in Johnson County, Arkansas, abutting on what was formerly the north bank of the north channel of the Arkansas Diver, according to the government survey made in the year 1829. Opposite this land, and across the north channel of said river, there was a well-defined island, containing about 200 acres, which the government engineers surveyed and platted as a part of the government domain and which was described „in the patent from…