State of Arkansas ex rel. Norwood v. Rust Land & Lumber Co.

MARTINEAU, District Judge.

In this suit the state of Arkansas seeks to quiet its title against the adverse claims of defendants to certain lands lying in Phillips county, Ark., and to cancel a deed to these lands executed to defendants by the state land commissioner under what is known as the Island Act (Crawford & Moses’ Dig. Ark. § 6796 et seq.).

First, the state claims these lands were-the bed of the Mississippi liver at the time of an avulsion in that river some time in the early ’40’s, and that there is not now and neyer has been any provision of law by which their title could pass from…