State v. Hatchie Coon Hunting & Fishing Club, Inc.

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order determining ownership of a forty-six acre island that lies in the St. Francis River in Poinsett County, Arkansas. The property, part of the St. Francis Sunken Lands near Marked Tree, is situated between the eastern and western shores of the river and was part of a 700-acre tract of land that appellee, Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club, purchased by patent in 1892 from appellant, the State of Arkansas.1 The Club’s land on the east and west sides of the St. Francis River is riparian; because the river itself was not included in the…