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STATE OF ARKANSAS v. RUST LAND & LUMBER CO.

No. 2350.

51 F.2d 555 (1931)

STATE OF ARKANSAS ex rel. NORWOOD, Atty. Gen., v. RUST LAND & LUMBER CO. et al.

District Court, E. D. Arkansas.

July 16, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes & Davis, of Memphis, Tenn., and Robert W. Wilson, of Pine Bluff, Ark., for plaintiff.

Sam Costen, pro. se, Wilson, Kyser, Armstrong & Allen, and Robert B. Goodwin, all of Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

MARTINEAU, District Judge.

In this suit the state of Arkansas seeks to quiet its title against the adverse claims of defendants to certain lands lying in Phillips county, Ark., and to cancel a deed to these lands executed to defendants by the state land commissioner under what is known as the Island Act (Crawford & Moses' Dig. Ark. § 6796 et seq.).

First, the state claims these lands were the bed of the Mississippi river at the time of an avulsion...

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