Bone v. May

Briefly, it is claimed by the appellees that the Missouri River, prior to the year 1895, had been steadily wearing away its east bank opposite certain lands of the appellees’ lying east of the river, until, in 1895, it reached a line sometimes spoken of in the case as “the Dean line,” which latter line appears to represent the most easterly advance of the river in that territory.

At the particular point in controversy, and at the time of the beginning of this suit, the east bank of the Missouri River ran substantially north and south. Immediately east of this east line of the Missouri River…