MATHER v. STATE

No. 54965.

200 N.W.2d 498 (1972)

Dan J. MATHER, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa et al., Appellees. Dean Dennis CHRISTENSEN and Lynette Joy Christensen, husband and wife, et al., Appellants, v. WOODBURY COUNTY, Iowa, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles N. Woolery, Sergeant Bluff, and Gleysteen, Nelson, Harper, Kunze & Eidsmoe, Sioux City, for appellant, Dan J. Mather.

Kindig, Beebe, McCluhan & Rawlings, Sioux City, for appellants, Dean Dennis Christensen, Lynette Joy Christensen, Lee A. Christensen and Jeanne Marie Christensen.

Michael Murray and Manning Walker, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee, State of Iowa.

William E. Adams, Sioux City, for appellee, Woodbury County, Iowa.


LeGRAND, Justice.

This is a quiet title action seeking to settle ownership of lands formed by accretion along the Missouri River at a location known as Omadi Bend in Woodbury County.

Plaintiffs are riparian owners who claim the land accreted to their shores. The State of Iowa, on the other hand, resists this claim and by cross-petition asserts the land in question attached to an island in the Missouri River. Several actions, started independently, were consolidated...

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