State ex rel. Hopkins v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burci-i, J.:

The action is one to compel the state auditor to sell an abandoned channel of the Kaw river, and to distribute the proceeds according to chapter 272 of the Laws of 1921.

The act is entitled:

“An Act relating to the sale, disposition and conveyance, in certain cases, of the abandoned channel of navigable streams in the state of Kansas.” «

*303The act provides that, whenever a channel of a navigable stream is so changed that the land between the old'bank is abandoned by the water and a new channel is established, the land forming the old channel…