Stroup v. Matthews

Plaintiff, Jacob Stroup, plead that under United States patent of August 19, 1881, he was the owner and entitled to possession of lots 1 and 2 of section 8 in township 8 N., E. 5, W., B. M., in Payette county, with the exception of a small described strip on the north side of said lot 1; that the approved and filed government plat and field-notes of the survey of the same affirmatively show such lots to be meandered by and adjoining the right bank of Snake river, with no land intervening between such meander line and the river bank; that the defendants were in possession of said lands,…