United States Gypsum Co. v. Uhlhorn

YOUNG, District Judge.

This diversity of citizenship litigation was filed in this Court by the plaintiff United States Gypsum Company, an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business outside Arkansas, by way of a suit to quiet title to land alleged to have arisen as an island from the bed of the Mississippi River within the State of Arkansas. The defendant Frances Uhlhorn, a citizen and resident of the State of Tennessee, was made a party defendant and service on her was obtained under Rule 4(e) of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

After the pleadings were made up it became apparent…