Little v. Williams
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Chancery Court, Chickasawba District ; Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This case involves a controversy concerning the title to a large body of unsurveyed and unoccupied land containing 1,000 or 1,200 acres of land within the meandered lines of what is known as Walker’s Take according to the survey made in 1847 by the United States government.
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Appeal from Mississippi Chancery Court, Chickasawba District ; Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This case involves a controversy concerning the title to a large body of unsurveyed and unoccupied land containing 1,000 or 1,200 acres of land within the meandered lines of what is known as Walker’s Take according to the survey made in 1847 by the United States government. The plaintiff, Johanna Tittle, claiming to be in actual possession of the lands in controversy, instituted this suit in chaneery against the defendants, J. J. Williams and others, to quiet her alleged…
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On Rshbaring.
McCurroch, J.
The decision is vigorously assailed on the ground that we were mistaken in holding that the unsurveyed land between the meandered line and true shore line of this lake was not patented by the United States to the State 'of Arkansas. Courts take cognizance judicially of the general system of government surveys, and accordingly we know that lands ate surveyed and platted into sections and parts of sections and into fractional where they abut on streams or other bodies of water. The record in this case contains a plat and the field notes of the governmental surveys of…
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