Craig v. Leonard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one to determine the ownership and right to possession of a small tract of land in a bend of the Vermillion river in Pottawatomie county. The plaintiffs prevailed and defendant appeals.

Prior to 1886 the entire south half of the southwest quarter of the section in controversy was owned by Thomas Huey. It was crossed by the Red Vermillion river, which at that time ran from a northerly to a southerly direction, approximately fifty-five acres of the tract being west and twenty-five acres east of the river. Huey and his wife…