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HOUSTON v. UNITED STATES GYPSUM CO.

No. 76-2988.

569 F.2d 880 (1978)

George T. HOUSTON, III and Ruth H. Jarvis Baker, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 16, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Everett, Jr., Robert A. Weems, Vicksburg, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. A. Lake, Greenville, Miss., for defendant-appellee.

Before COLEMAN and FAY, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

What happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object? In this case the unstoppable force is the never ending, often shifting, accretive processes of the Mississippi River. The immovable object is the boundary line of privately owned land in the bed of the river.1 After an extended Bench trial, which accumulated a voluminous record, judgment went for the owner of the river bed. This appeal followed...

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