Price v. Western Life Insurance Co.

This is an action to quiet title to land under claim of title by adverse possession.

In 1903 the United States issued to the plaintiff Price a patent to a fractional quarter section of land in Township 3 South, Range 18 East, M. M. The Stillwater River flowing in an easterly direction cuts into the two forty-acre tracts lying on the north of the quarter section. In 1906 Soren P. Larsen received a patent for a fractional quarter section adjoining the Price land on the north and west. The meandering course of the Stillwater River on which both tracts border leaves a small fraction of the Price…