Legal Opinion
State v. McIlroy
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided March 17, 1980No. 79-320PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
W. L. McIlroy and his late brother’s estate, owners of 230 acres in Franklin County, sought a chancery court declaration that their rights as riparian landowners on the Mulberry River were, because the stream was not a navigable river, superior to the rights of the public.
McIlroy joined as defendants the Ozark Society, a conservationist group, and two companies that rent canoes for use on the Mulberry and other Ozark Mountain streams. The State of Arkansas, intervening, claimed the Mulberry was a navigable stream and the stream bed the property of the state, not the…
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