St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company v. St. Paul Water Commissioners; Minneapolis Mill Company v. Same
Supreme Court of the United States
These actions were brought in a District Court of the State of Minnesota, by the respective plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error for the purpose of recovering damages for injury to their alleged rights as riparian owners and otherwise, at St. Anthony Palls on the Mississippi River, and also for á perpetual injunction enjoining the defendant in error from diverting the waters above so as to prevent them from flowing in their natural course in the.
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These actions were brought in a District Court of the State of Minnesota, by the respective plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error for the purpose of recovering damages for injury to their alleged rights as riparian owners and otherwise, at St. Anthony Palls on the Mississippi River, and also for á perpetual injunction enjoining the defendant in error from diverting the waters above so as to prevent them from flowing in their natural course in the. Mississippi Eiver and down to the water power of the plaintiffs in error respectively. The plaintiff in error, the St. Anthony Falls…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
It is claimed upon the part of the plaintiffs in error that by the decision of the court below they have been deprived of their property without due procéss of law. They urge that they have certain rights as riparian owners5 of land near St. Anthony Falls, bordering upon the Mississippi River, to the use of all the water as it would naturally flow past their land, and that this right is property that its existence and extent are to be determined by the general law applicable to riparian owners in like situation, which right is not determined con- • clusively by a state court, and that being…
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