Hutson v. Rush Creek Land & Livestock Co.

This was an action to quiet title to a tract of land along the north bank of the North Platte River in Morrill County, Nebraska. The plaintiffs, Melvin T. Hutson and Lou Hutson, are the owners of the land in Sections 7 and 8, Township 18 North, Range 47 West of the 6th P.M. which lies along the south bank of the North Platte River. The defendant Rush Creek Land and Livestock Company is the record owner of the land in Sections 5 and 6 which is along the north bank of the river and directly opposite the plaintiffs’ land. The appellant John H. Chain is a contract purchaser of the plaintiffs’…