Manistee River Improvement Co. v. Sands

These cases all come up on the same question, — whether the statute allowing the State Board of Control to regulate, and the plaintiff to collect, tolls for floating logs through such portions of the Manistee river as plaintiff has cleared and improved so as to facilitate floatage, is valid. There is a further question as to tolls previous to February, 1879. The defendant’s brief gives no very tangible reason why these differ from the rest. We see nothing to authorize any inquiry behind the tolls claimed that has not been practically disposed of by our previous decisions.

The validity of this…