Medlock v. Galbreath

Appellees, commercial fishermen, obtained in the lower court decree enjoining appellants from interfering with appellees in pursuing their fishing operations in Portia Bay, in Lawrence county,.Arkansas. Appellants ask us to reverse this decree.

Portia Bay is a body of water about one hundred twenty-five yards wide and three and a half miles in length. It lies in the form of an almost complete circle, and several small creeks empty into it. It has an outlet, through which water runs practically all the year, by way of a small creek, into Black River.

Appellants, who are brothers, own the east…