State v. Narrows Island Club.

We need not decide whether the grant from the State, under which the defendant claims title to the land covered by the water called “ Big Narrows,” charged in the indictment to have been obstructed, was or was not void. The evidence produced on the trial went directly to prove, and the jury found by their verdict, that the water was part of a navigable sound, and that it was, in fact, navigable for a large class of useful vessels, and had been used by the public for the purposes of navigation for a long while— twenty-five or thirty years, and perhaps longer. If the water referred to was thus…