Indiana v. Milk

Gresham, D. J.

The state sues to recover possession of 2,868 acres of land, once part of the bed of Beaver lake, in Newton county. The defendants plead specially the facts upon which they claim title to the premises in dispute:

All the lands surrounding the lake were surveyed by the United States in 1835, but the lake was never surveyed nor the bed offered for sale. A meander line was run by the surveyors around the lake, which line and the lake are represented on the government surveys and plats. All the lots or government subdivisions surrounding the lake were ceded to the state by what is…