Cash v. O'Connor

The parties to this litigation each owned what was once an island in the Mississippi River, and they derived their titles through separate grants from the state of Tennessee. By accretions to each, the islands have now joined and are now known as Booker’s Towhead. The controlling question in the case is that of the location of the correct present boundary between these grants.

There has been protracted litigation of this question in the courts of Tennessee and, by stipulation, three opinions of Tennessee courts have been incorporated into the record now before us. The first of these opinions…