Lutesville Sand Gravel Company v. McLaughlin

Margretta McLaughlin and her husband, T. F. McLaughlin, brought this suit against the appellant Gravel 'Company to recover the value of certain gravel alleged to have been taken from land owned by Mrs. McLaughlin, and judgment was rendered in her favor for the sum sued for.

The controlling question in the case is the one of fact whether Spring' River, from which the gravel was removed, is a. navigable stream. Mrs. McLaughlin amended her complaint to allege that the bar from which the gravel was removed was an accretion to her land, but the court held — and properly, we think — that under the…