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CISSNA v. TENNESSEE

No. 20.

246 U.S. 289 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 306

62 L.Ed. 720

CISSNA v. STATE OF TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 11, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Caruthers Ewing for plaintiff in error.

Mr. John P. Bullington, with whom Mr. Frank M. Thompson, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, was on the briefs, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The State of Tennessee sued Cissna and others in a court of equity of that State, setting up ownership by the State of that portion of the dry lands formerly a part of the bed of the Mississippi River which lay between low-water mark on the Tennessee side and the middle of the river as it flowed prior to the change in the channel made in the year 1876 by the opening of the Centennial Cut-off; alleging that the...

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