Pratsch v. Aberdeen Packing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

In June, 1890, the respondent was the owner of a narrow strip of land lying to the eastward of F street in the town of Aberdeen, between what would have been Hume and River streets had those streets been extended. The east boundary of the strip was the Wishkah river, a meandered stream in which there was a large ebb and flow of the tides. The river was navigable for all ordinary water craft, and was supposed to be subject to the provisions of the state constitution relating to harbor lines. The meander line as run by surveyors of the United…