Obrecht v. National Gypsum Co.

The last great frontiers of Michigan’s public domain lie submerged between her thousands of miles of shore line and the navigable boundaries which, historically, have separated and now separate Michigan from Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ontario and Ohio. * Now that the St. Lawrence Seaway is making of the Great Lakes an “Eighth Sea,” the courts of these inland coastal States may well brace themselves for a series of new questions'having to do with the nature and alienability of sovereign title to such domain and the inevitable collision of riparian rights — claimed by the common law — with…