Lindsey v. Hawes
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of. Illinois, in which the appellants here were complainants there.
The subject of the litigation is the legal title to the southwest part of the northeast fractional quarter o'’ section No. 36, in township No. 18, of range No. 2, west, of rhe fourth principal meridian, in the county of Rock Island, Illinois. The course of the Mississippi river at this point is almost due west, and that portion of its waters which flows south of the island of Rock Island, divides the northeast quarter of section 36 into two parts,…
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