Keel v. Sutton

By this proceeding in ejectment complainants sought to recover from defendants, F, R. Humphrey and'L. C. Sutton, a certain tract of land on the Mississippi river, in Shelby county.

It is alleged in the bill that the complainants, as the heirs at law of their father and those under whom he claimed, had, prior to the year 1897, been in the open and adverse possession of the property for a period of more than thirty years and that on account of the encroachment of the Mississippi river in the year. 1897 the property became untenantable, and they were compelled to abandon the same. It is further…