T. L. Wright Lumber Co. v. Ripley County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. — Hon. ■ Frank Kelly, Judge. (1) When the Government of the United States has conveyed its lands along the hanlc of the river and has sold and conveyed such land hy Government subdivisions, its patent conveys all the land between the meander line and the middle thread of the river, unless previous to such patent it has surveyed such lands as governmental subdivisions or expressly reserves them 'when not surveyed.
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Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. — Hon. ■ Frank Kelly, Judge. (1) When the Government of the United States has conveyed its lands along the hanlc of the river and has sold and conveyed such land hy Government subdivisions, its patent conveys all the land between the meander line and the middle thread of the river, unless previous to such patent it has surveyed such lands as governmental subdivisions or expressly reserves them 'when not surveyed. Jeffries v. Land Co., 134 U. S. 178; Covley v. Golden, 117 Mo. 33; Stoner v. Royar, 200 Mo. 444. (2) - Field notes of United States surveys…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, J.
— The plaintiff brought this suit in the circuit court of Ripley County, under section 2535, Revised Statutes 1909, against the defendant, to ascertain and decree title to the land described in the petition —the same being a small island in Current River, consisting of about five and one-half acres, near the city of Doniphan, Missouri. The judgment was for the de-féndant, and the plaintiff appealed the cause to this court.
The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the United States patented the land on January 1, 1849, to Lemuel Kittrell, and that through mesne conveyances the plaintiff, on…
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