Whitson v. Morris

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is an action and counteraction to quiet title to 1,155 acres of alluvial land which was reformed or created by reappearance after the original soil had been washed away or submerged by the Mississippi River.

We agree with the appellants that the history and geography of the locality is of interest. We quote from their brief:

“Of all the inconceivably, mischievous pranks upon its neighbors by this ‘Ole Man River’ in his ubiquitous and incomprehensible process of ‘just keep rolling along’ in its course to the Grulf of Mexico, the most…