Allen v. Forrest

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, C. J.

— The plaintiff, claiming right to purchase certain tide lands under the act of March 26, 1890,. brought his action against the defendant, W. T. Forrest, commissioner of public lands, to restrain him from entering into a contract with one Eugene Semple, who had made application under the act of March 9, 1893, entitled ‘ ‘An act prescribing the ways in which waterways for the uses of navigation may be excavated by private contract, providing for liens upon tide and shore lands belonging to the state, granting rights-of-way across lands…