Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. Sutton

The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida have appealed the entry of a summary final decree vesting title to 88.94 acres of alluvion in the appellee, Sarah B. Sutton. The summary decree found the disputed property to have accreted to a triangular parcel of 24.56 acres owned by the appellee and recognized to be land on the official survey of the United States Land Office in 1847.

Sarah B. Sutton, a widow, instituted suit November 28, 1960, seeking to quiet her claimed title to certain property as originally surveyed September 30, 1847, by the Surveyor General of the…