Bellefontaine Improvement Co. v. Niedringhaus

Appellees filed a bill for partition of and to remove a cloud from certain lands situated in township 3, north, range 10, west of the third principal meridian, in Madison county, Illinois. The land is bounded on the south by the north line of the south half of section 23, and the western continuation thereof tó the main channel of the Mississippi river; on the north by land of the Granite City, Madison and Venice Water Company; on the east by a channel of the Mississippi river known as “Gaboret slough;” and on the west by the thread of the stream in the main channel of the Mississippi river.…