Cunningham v. Prevow
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, P. J.
This is an ejectment suit. The subject matter is a tract of land lying in Lake County on the east hank of the Mississippi River, ‘which was formed by the process of accretion. The chancellor held for the complainant and the defendants appealed. The latter contend that the locus in quo was formed by accretion to riparian land owned by them and their predecessors in title, and hence belongs to them under the law of accretions. The complainant contends that the land reformed in an area formerly occupied by land owned by her predecessors in title which in part disappeared as a result of erosion…
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