Missouri Court of Appeals April 4, 1949 (Allred v. Beigel and Evans)

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Plaintiffs sued Biegel, in replevin, for possession of an ancient Indian canoe found embedded in land owned by Mrs. Evans, intervenor. Trial to the court, without a jury, resulted in judgment for intervenor. Plaintiffs appeal. Plaintiffs went swimming in the Chariton river, at a point where a new channel had been cut across a bend in the old river course.