State ex rel. Indiana Department of Conservation v. Kivett

Fundamentally this case involves the title to the bed of White River in Morgan County, Indiana, about one and a half miles upstream from the city of Martinsville, Indiana.

The complaint in the case was the usual form to enjoin the appellee from taking sand, gravel, stone and other minerals and substances from the bed of White River for an accounting for all such materials he has heretofore taken from said stream. To this complaint, the appellee, as defendant, filed answer in denial of all of the allegations thereof and a second paragraph alleging that the Indiana Department of Conservation is…