Godfrey v. Dixon Power & Lighting Co.

This is an ejectment suit brought by appellants to recover land lying in the bed of Rock river, described in the second count of the declaration as “a parcel of land situated in the city of Dixon, being a part of certain premises conveyed by the estate of Joseph B. Brooks, deceased, and by one John Daley, to Charles Godfrey, and being that part of lot one (1) in Mill block, in the city of Dixon, on which a portion of the dam stood on January 1, 1866, which said tenements the plaintiffs claim in fee,” Rock river at the place in question runs in an easterly and westerly direction, and part of…