SIECK v. GODSEY

No. 50801.

118 N.W.2d 555 (1962)

A. E. SIECK, Appellee, v. Carn GODSEY and Janice Godsey Robertson, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross, Johnson, Stuart, Tinley & Peters, and Kistle & Telpner, Council Bluffs, for appellants.

Cook & Drake, Glenwood, and DeVere Watson, Council Bluffs, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

This case comes to us by courtesy of the Missouri River and the United States Corps of Army Engineers. The Engineers have been for many years engaged in an attempt to enforce some measure of law and order upon this most wandering and capricious of rivers; and in the course of their activities has arisen the situation which gives rise to the present lawsuit.

Prior to 1938 plaintiff's predecessor in title owned lands lying in the horseshoeshaped...

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