Haynie v. May

This case involves conflicting claims of ownership as to certain accretion lands along the east side of the Missouri river in Mills county, Iowa. It appears that for several years prior to 1895 the Missouri river, in the vicinity of the land here involved, had gradually eroded its banks to the eastward. About that time it began to recede to the westward. The east bank at the time the river reached its most easterly channel was surveyed and was indicated by a line referred to herein as the “Dean Line.” Section 13 lies to the north of section 24, and section 19 lies to the east of section 24.…