Franklin v. United States

MARTIN, District Judge.

These cases are before the court on demurrers of the United States to the declarations filed by the plaintiffs. Each of the plaintiffs own undivided one-fourth interests in a certain piece of land containing eleven hundred acres and located on the east bank of the Mississippi river in Tipton county, Tenn. Plaintiffs allege that, for more than twenty-five years prior to the injury complained of, their land was rich, fertile, well-drained, highly cultivated and *254highly productive, and that its elevation was such that the waters of the Mississippi river did not hinder or…