Clark v. Pigeon River Improvement Slide & Boom Co.

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is a citizen of Canada. Appellee is a corporation exercising under the laws of Minnesota certain alleged rights on the Pigeon river, which is an international boundary line between the northeast corner of Minnesota and the province of Ontario.

Appellant is the owner of a large tract of timber on the Canadian side of the Pigeon river. Large amounts of timber are cut and piled on this land yearly, and the operation of producing pulpwood for the market has been carried on by him for many years. This pulpwood is floated down the Pigeon river to Pigeon Bay in Lake…