Weber v. Board of Harbor Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for- the District of California; iu which court one Weber filed a bill against the board of State harbor commissioners of California, to make them abate and remove certain erections made by them on the water front of San Francisco, which he alleged interfered with a wharf rightfully put there by him.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for- the District of California; iu which court one Weber filed a bill against the board of State harbor commissioners of California, to make them abate and remove certain erections made by them on the water front of San Francisco, which he alleged interfered with a wharf rightfully put there by him. The case was thus: The State of California' was admitted into the.Union on the 9th of September, 1850. At the first session of its legislature afterwards, namely, on the 26th of Maroh, 1851, an act was passed entitled il An act, to provide for the disposition of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
It is unnecessary for the disposition of this case to question the doctrine, that a riparian proprietor, whose land is bounded by a navigable stream, has the right of access to the navigable part of the stream in front of his land, and to construct a wharf or pier projecting into the stream, for his own use, or the use of others, subject to such general rules and regulations as the legislature may prescribe for the pro''tection of the public, as was held in Yates v. Milwaukee. * On the contrary, we recognize the correctness of the doctrine as stated and affirmed in that case. . Nor is it…
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