Rober v. Michelsen

Root, C.

Suit to quiet title to real estate. The court held it did not have jurisdiction of the controversy, because the land therein involved was in Iowa, and dismissed the action. Plaintiff appeals.

The land was entered in 1855, and patent therefor was *49issued in 1860, and, until the last-mentioned date, said land was all on the west side of the Missouri river and in Nebraska. During the years 1863,1864 and 1865, the river gradually encroached on and finally washed away all of said land, so that none of it remained above water, but all formed part of the bed of said river; and still later said…