Adkisson v. Starr

This is a suit between adjoining riparian landowners to obtain a division of about 1,200 acres of land that was formed by accretion as the channel of the Arkansas River gradually shifted westward. The appellants, defendants below, and their predecessors in title have long owned riparian land (referred to as the Adkisson place) in Section 13, Township 3 North, Range 14 West. The appellee and his predecessors have owned the adjoining farm to the south, known as the Rector place and lying in Sections 24, 25, and 36. The recession of the river over a period of more than fifty years exposed the…