Opinion ID: 103985
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Heading: Muse, L. F. Stalcup; cf. A. P. Staver.

Text: 28 C. Hudgins, V. Harrison, C. Dinwiddie, R. L. Greene, W. Metcalf, E. Wales; cf. E. McCoy, H. H. Hall, D. Barbour. 29 Cf. note 20 supra; J. Kotsch, W. Prusman, C. McWilliams. 30 They agreed that the Missouri channel flowed around the island not far from the Burlington tracks, turning south at that point and flowing against the Kansas bluffs at Station 510. They also agreed that the Kansas channel was a chute. But they differed concerning its direction and location. Robinson placed it as running almost due south across the center of the island in a straight course. Gray placed the Kansas chute more to the west and with a curving course. Both testified that the Missouri channel was the main channel at that time. The inconsistency between Exhibit 46 and the testimony and drawings of Robinson and Gray may be accounted for in part, though not altogether, by the fact they were in the Bend for hunting and fishing purposes, chiefly in the fall, whereas Exhibit 46 was made from surveys in June and July. The difference in time, however, is hardly enough to account for the difference either in width or depth of the Kansas channel as shown by the exhibit and by their testimony. 31 Cf. notes 27-29 supra. 32 Cf. note 25 supra. 33 State of Missouri v. State of Kentucky, 11 Wall. 395, 20 L.Ed. 116; Davis v. Anderson-Tully Co., 8 Cir., 252 F. 681; Commissioners v. United States, 8 Cir., 270 F. 110. 34 Missouri apparently urges that even if the land formed as an island on the Kansas side, the process by which the main channel shifted from the eastern to the western channel and the former gradually filled with alluvial deposits thus connecting the island to the Missouri shore, entitles it to sovereignty over the disputed lands.