McCoy v. Paxton

This is an action to quiet title. The land in controversy is all accretion made by. the action of the Missouri river, which bounds it on the west. It all lies south of a line running due west to the river from the southeast corner of section 17, and is between. the river and section 16 and 21. The plaintiffs are the owners of section 17, and the defendants are the owners of those parts of sections 16 and 21 that fronted on the river. Section 17 is a fractional section, consisting of lots 1 and 2. According to the' government survey of 1852, the left bank of the Missouri river is meandered as…