Hardt v. Orr

This is a suit in equity. Plaintiff is the owner of an island in the North Platte river known as “Long Island.” The immediate cause for bringing this suit was occasioned by defendant Orr erecting a fence on lands claimed by plaintiff as constituting a part of this island owned by him, and artificially changing the course of the waters flowing in the channel north of the island casting it upon and against the shore line thereof., Plaintiff’s amended petition described his ownership of the island; alleged that at the time of the original government survey it contained more than 160 acres of…