O'Connor v. Petty

This is a suit to quiet in plaintiffs title to lands between an abandoned channel of. the Missouri river and its present channel. Plaintiffs claim to be riparian owners of definitely described, separate tracts in Dakota county, Nebraska. Defendants allege that the land in controversy is in Woodbury county, Iowa. The rival parties claim the territory in controversy as accretions to their riparian lands. From á decree in favor of plaintiff's, defendants have appealed.

One of the defenses pleaded is that the land in controversy is in Iowa, an'd that therefore the Nebraska courts are without…