Wineman v. Withers

This is a suit in equity by the appellants to quiet their title to certain land and to cancel the appellees’ claim thereto. The appellants and the appellees own adjoining land bounded on the west by the Mississippi river and under the calls of their deeds own to the thread of the stream. Morgan v. Reading, 3 Smedes & M. 366; The Magnolia v. Marshall, 391 Miss. 109. A large body of alluvion has formed in front of this land, and the dis pute between the parties hereto is as to where the line which separates their portions of this alluvion should be drawn.

The contentions of the parties and the…