McBee v. Dennis

The positions of the parties were reversed below. They will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The Central Life Insurance Co. of Fort Scott, Kansas, owned a 262.67-area tract of land in secs. 1 & 2 in twp. 6 north, range 25 east, in LeFlore county, Oklahoma, in the valley of the Poteau river. The plaintiff had lived on this land as a boy. It was subject to overflow, and while a part of it had been cleared at one time, it had been permitted to grow up in underbrush. The plaintiff heard that the land was owned by the insurance company and decided to buy it, so he went to the…