McGee v. Matthews

GORDON E. YOUNG, District Judge.

This is a diversity of citizenship action between the plaintiff George McGee, a citizen of the State of Mississippi, and the defendants A. L. Nuckols, Albert Matthews and Geraldine Matthews,1 his wife, citizens of Arkansas. The matter in controversy is the ownership of lands on the concave side of an oxbow lake formed by a cutoff in the Arkansas River. The oxbow lake is sometimes referred to as “Bicker’s Bend” and sometimes as “Taylor’s Old Lake.” The lands in issue are referred to as Diamond Point.

The area of land known as Diamond Point on the Arkansas River…