C.H. Hammonds and His Wife Dean Hammonds, Billy Watson and His Wife Donnie Watson v. Ingram Industries, Inc.

JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

Ingram Industries, Inc. appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in a trespass action for damages of $345,000 arising from Ingram’s dredging sand from several islands in the northern half of the Ohio River which had been patented by C.H. Hammonds and Billy Watson. On appeal, Ingram advances numerous contentions, both legal and factual, concerning the existence of the islands, the nature of the trespass involved in the dredging, the attachment of riparian rights to islands, and the amount of damages awarded. Because we find each of Ingram’s…