Johnson v. Seifert

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment determining rights of riparian owners to use of waters of intertract lakes.

The principal question raised by this appeal is whether the owner of a tract abutting on a lake, suitable for fishing, boating, hunting, swimming, and other domestic or recreational uses to which our lakes are ordinarily put in common with other abutting owners, has a right to make use of the lake over its entire surface, irrespective of whether the lake is navigable and irrespective of the ownership of the lakebed.

This was an action by plaintiff — appellant—to enjoin defendants…