Schulte v. Warren

Appellant filed his bill in this case in the circuit court of Mason county alleging that he was the owner in fee simple and was in possession of the lands therein described, amounting to about twenty-eight hundred acres, situated in the Illinois river bottom, bounded on the west by said river and on the north by the north line of Mason county; that they were swamp and overflowed lands, which were subject to overflow from the Illinois river in times of high water from natural causes; that prior to the construction "of a certain lock and dam in said river and the opening of the canal of the…