Meeker v. Kautz

The real estate in controversy herein consists of two small islands in the Mississippi River on the Iowa side of the thread of the stream. Plaintiff asserted title thereto by reason of a patent issued by the State of Iowa to one Burmeister, who later conveyed title to the plaintiff.

The defense is a general denial, and a cross-petition in which defendants assert title to these two small islands by reason of accretion to a larger island to which latter larger island the defendants had undisputed title. The defendants also asserted that plaintiff’s patent was void and contrary to law and…