Attorney General Ex Rel. Director of Conservation v. Taggart

Plaintiffs appeal from decrees entered in the circuit court for the county of Newaygo in chancery in two cases involving almost the same state of facts. The cases were combined and heard together and come here on one record and set of briefs. They were heard by the Honorable Earl C. Pugsley, Fremont Evans and Herman Dehnke, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc. Each wrote a separate opinion, Judge Evans upholding the principles set forth in Collins v. Gerhardt, 237 Mich. 38, while Judges Pugsley and Dehnke distinguished that case and denied the right to the public to fish in the particular stream…