State v. Woods

SNELL, Judge.

This appeal by plaintiff State of Iowa arises from an action commenced in 1963 attempting to quiet title to land in the State located in Fremont County, Iowa. The land, known as Walker-Engleman Island or State Line Island, totaling 264 acres, was a portion of a Missouri River island and an adjacent abandoned channel of the river. The Iowa-Missouri border, as extended across the island, formed the property’s southern boundary. The remainder of the island was purportedly in Missouri although Nebraska asserted some claim to it. The land was subject to the Iowa-Nebraska Boundary…