Hemphill Lumber Co. v. Parker

— This is an action to quiet title to a tract of 660 acres lying within the meander lines of Gum Slough, as shown on a copy of an official plat and survey of fractional Township 17, Range 7, east, in Dunklin County, approved by the Surveyor-General and filed in the office of the county clerk in 1849. This slough is on the east side of Gum Island, and connects with the St. Francis River at the north and south ends of the island, the river being the west boundary of the island, which is about a mile and a quarter long and contains about 400' acres. The plat shows that the island and the land…