Posey v. James

In 1866 James purchased of J. F. Mills a tract of land on the Mississippi river, a few miles north of Memphis. Two of the boundary lines of the grants from the State, embracing the lands of James, are as follows: “ Two hundred and forty-six chains fifty links to a cottonwood marked W. & C., on a chute of the Mississippi river, thenpe down said river with its meanders south,” etc., the latter line being the western boundary.

In front of this line a sand-bar formed, and in a few years increased to two or three hundred acres of tillable land, and the part in front of James was in a good degree…