Brown v. Cunningham
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jones District Court. — Hon. J. II. Preston, Judge. This is an action upon an injunction bond given to tlie plaintiff and others. A verdict was had for the defendant under the direction of the court, and a judgment rendered thereon, from which the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeoic, C. J.
I. The plaintiff and another were engaged in cutting and putting tip ice obtained in the x. practtou: re-o»'fiemm™rns after trial. Wapsepinecon river, not a navigable stream, but meandered in the government surveys 0;£ the public lands, and, therefore, its bed was never disposed of by the government by sales of the adjacent lands. It does not appear that the government ever transferred in any manner the bed of the river. The plaintiff and his business associate, not being the riparian owners, entered upon the river and cut and put in an icehouse a large quantity of ice, and cut and made…
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