Melander v. County of Freeborn

Plaintiffs appealed from an adverse judgment in each of the two actions which are here on the same record.

The county is defendant in both actions and plaintiffs are adjoining riparian owners. Certain taxpayers intervened. Freeborn lake is a meandered navigable body of water covering an area of 1,800 acres with a watershed of 7,300 acres. It is subjected to the usual public use. A part of plaintiffs’ lands which adjoin the lake is low but usually tillable and a part usually marshy and not tillable. The latter is flooded during wet seasons and at times when the water is extremely high in the…