Dead River Fishing & Hunting Club v. Stovall

This is an appeal by Dead River Fishing & Hunting Club, the appellant, from a decree of the chancery court of Monroe county dismissing its original bill and denying it the relief prayed.

The case grew out of the following state of facts: In Monroe county there is a certain horseshoe shaped lake, which was, at one time, a part of the bed of the Tombigbee river. At some remote time in the past, the river cut across the neck of the horseshoe bend, changed its course, and made a new channel there. A lake was therefore formed in the old river bed — the dead part of the river, whence was derived the…