Nelson v. Cheboygan Slack-Water Navigation Co.

This is a suit to recover of the defendant a considerable sum of money which the plaintiffs have paid under protest, as tolls for passing through a canal around a "dam constructed by defendant across the Cheboygan river about a mile above its mouth where, before the construction of any dam, there were rapids. To an understanding of the legal questions it is necessary to have some knowledge of the water-courses which find an outlet by way of this river.

The stream named the Cheboygan is eight miles long, passing from Mullett lake to Mackinaw straits. Mullett lake is twelve miles long by three…