Pearson v. . Smith

"The jury find, that on the 20th day of December, 1791, the State, by a patent deed granted the land mentioned and included in the lines and boundaries described in the plaintiff's declaration to William Giles; and that all of the said land so included in the said boundaries is the bed of the river Yadkin, covered with water, except about one acre and a little bar or sand bank, about the middle of the river, which is not usually or commonly covered with water, and is not a natural but an artificial bank, raised by some persons for the purpose of fishing, prior to the date of the said grant.

"Th…