State v. Bowen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Repobted from tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendants were charged with a violation of tbe provisions of sec. 4560d, Stats., being cb. 525 of tbe Laws of 1909, in tbis, that they did on tbe 15th day of April, 1911, in tbe county of La Crosse and state of Wisconsin, unlawfully set, place, and use in an inland water of tbis state, to wit, in tbe Mississippi river, one certain net which was not then and there a landing net.
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Repobted from tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendants were charged with a violation of tbe provisions of sec. 4560d, Stats., being cb. 525 of tbe Laws of 1909, in tbis, that they did on tbe 15th day of April, 1911, in tbe county of La Crosse and state of Wisconsin, unlawfully set, place, and use in an inland water of tbis state, to wit, in tbe Mississippi river, one certain net which was not then and there a landing net. Tbe respective parties, by their attorneys, stipulated in open court that a jury be waived and that tbe case be tried and…
1Opinion of the CourtVihje, J.
In Roberts v. Fullerton, 117 Wis. 222, 93 N. W. 1111, it was held that the jurisdiction of a state for the enforcement of its fish and game laws is co-extensive with, and limited by, the boundaries of the state, even though they consist of the thread of a navigable stream over whose waters the adjacent states have concurrent jurisdiction for other purposes. The answer to the question reported, therefore, depends upon whether or not the boundary of the state of Wisconsin changed from the thread of the channel east of Minnesota Island to the thread of the channel west thereof by reason of the…
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