Pessemier v. Nichols

The opinion of the court was delivered by

AlleN, J.:

This was an action in ejectment. Judgment was for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.

Our statute G. S. 1935, 72-2128, provides:

“All land lying and being in and forming a part of the abandoned bed of any navigable stream in this state and lying between the meandered lines of such stream, as the same are shown by the United States survey thereof, except such lands as are claimed and occupied by and belong to the adjacent landowners as accretions, shall be surveyed and sold as hereinafter directed and the proceeds of said sales credited to the…