A. C. Conn Co. v. Little Suamico Lumber Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. Action to recover damages for the obstruction of a navigable river and the consequent delay in the driving of the plaintiff’s logs therein. The facts will, sufficiently appear from the opinion. There was a verdiot for the defendants, and from the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff appeals.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. Action to recover damages for the obstruction of a navigable river and the consequent delay in the driving of the plaintiff’s logs therein. The facts will, sufficiently appear from the opinion. There was a verdiot for the defendants, and from the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff appeals. They contended, inter alia, that this river is one of the navigable waters leading into the St. Lawrence river which the state is bound to keep as common highways forever free to the people of the state and of the United States. Atfy Gen. v. Eau…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
It is the undoubted policy of the state, as .manifested in its legislation, to secure the use of all streams within its territorial limits which are navigable as public highways. In respect to meandered streams which were returned by the government surveyors as navigable, the legislature has declared them navigable so far as the same have been meandered, to the extent that no dam, bridge, or other obstruction shall be made in or over the same without legislative permission; but this does not restrict the power granted by law to towns, counties, or cities to construct bridges over such…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Tyler v. WilkinsonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island · 1827
- Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
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- Whisler v. WilkinsonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1868
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