Graves v. Fancher

Howell, Y. C.

The bill in this case is filed to quiet title to lands covered by a small portion of the waters of Wawayanda lake and lying within the boundaries of a farm known as the Banta farm, which is now owned by the defendants. The land in dispute lies at the north end of the lake and at the south end of the Banta farm and embraces about seven or seven and a half acres of land; it is wholly covered by the waters of the lake and is divided by a highway into two portions, the larger one lying to the south of the highway.

On April 2d, 1871, John Rutherford and his wife> in consideration of…