Fuller v. Dauphin

Citations

• 124 Ill. 542
• 16 N.E. 917

Syllabus

<p>1. Botjndaby—as to land lying along a river or slough. The title of a riparian owner whose land is bounded by a navigable slough or arm of the Mississippi river, extends to the middle thread of the slough, and includes islands which are separated from the mainland, and which lie between the mainland and the center of the slough.</p> <p>2. Same—meandered line, whether a boundary line. A meandered line which is run along a water-course, merely for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction lying upon a river or slough, is not a boundary line, when it appears only from the minutes of the survey, and does not appear upon the plats filed in the land office.</p> <p>3. Swamp land—embraced only such land as the United States owned. A conveyance under the swamp land acts can not pass title to any lands which had been conveyed by the United States previously to the passage of such acts.</p>