Warner v. Snook

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DAWSON, J.:

The plaintiff, Glenn Warner, and the state of Kansas, intervener, claimed that a certain tract of land in Ford county was an island in the Arkansas river, and, as such, that it was state school land. Warner entered upon the disputed property with intent to perfect his right thereto as a school-land settler. The defendants claimed the tract, or most of it, as riparian owners, and thát they held fee titles thereto. The land in dispute lies mainly between the original government meander lines of the Arkansas river in that locality.

The jury made…