In Re Lake Elysian High-Water Level

1 Reported in 293 N.W. 140. Three appeals have been consolidated upon a single record, but counsel for the respective appellants have submitted separate briefs. As the issues are essentially the same, we shall dispose of them as though there were but one appellant.

The controlling facts as found by the commissioner of conservation may be thus summarized: On and prior to 1906 Lake Elysian was a meandered body of clean and clear water with well defined banks, containing fish of many kinds, with a large watershed estimated at some 50 square miles, and located in Le Sueur and Waseca counties. The…