I am currently taking a Boundary Control and Legal Principles class this semester. One of my assignments is to study a court case and present an essay on the case.
The case that I am studying is the State of Arkansas v The State of Tennessee (246 U.S. 158; 38 S. Ct. 301; 62 L. Ed. 638; 1918 U.S. Lexis 1531).
I have been trying to find a copy of the survey commissioned by the respective States as a part of the case. One deed in the area refers to the survey as the Arkansas-Tennessee Boundary Commission Survey from the Upper EnD of Centennial Cut-off to the Lower End of Brandywine Island, and is dated September 1920.
Does anyone know of an online resource to get a copy of this survey?
Thanks in advance
Jimmy, try the Tennessee State Archives office 615-741-2764.
Also try a microfilm archive of cases to see if the survey was filed with the court and copied there. They might not attach that to on-line records?
Jimmy,
Give Ben Kittler a call at the Arkansas State Land Surveyor's office.
501.683.1666
Doctor David S. Biedenharn, PhD, PE may also have some information on this survey.
601.636.3492
http://www.biedenharngroup.com/Biedenharn_CV.pdf
Here is another case pertaining to this area:
http://openjurist.org/366/f2d/211/uhlhorn-v-us-gypsum-company
DDSM
(send me a copy when you find it)
Jimmy,
They argued the line again in 1925:
Arkansas v. Tennessee
The commissioners, who were named by the decree entered June 10, 1918, (247 U.S. 461), and directed to run, locate and designate the boundary line between the States along the portion of the Mississippi River that was left dry as a result of the avulsion in 1876, filed their report, May 24, 1921. They correctly understood, — and counsel for the parties agreed with them, — that the directions contained in the decree applied to the two branches of the river as it formerly flowed, — the Devil's Elbow around Centennial Island and Island 37, and also the old river bed between Brandywine Island and the Tennessee shore. They found and recommended a line indicated by courses and distances set out in, and shown on a map attached to, their report.
DDSM;-)