Holman v. Hodges
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. Gr. W. Wake-field, Judge. The plaintiffs, as owners of lots 3 and 4, bordering the Missouri river, in tbis suit asked that title be quieted in them to a bar or island formed in the river, a part of which was occupied by the defendant. The district court denied the relief, but adjudged them to be owners up to what is called the “Iowa Channel,” the lines to be established by a commissioner. They appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
1 There is little controversy concerning the facts of this case. The plaintiffs have been owners of lots 3 .and 4, bordering the Missouri river, since 1862. A bar began to form opposite these, near the middle of the stream, in 1857. Certainly it had not appeared in 1856, as the ferryboat went directly across without obstruction. 'The following year a steamboat ran aground on the bar, and for several years afterwards boats were compelled to avoid it by following the current on either side. As early as 1861, ■according to one of the plaintiffs, it was a half mile wide, and has been added to…
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