Moore v. Sanborne

By the Court, Martin, J.

This was an action on the case, to recover damages for an alleged obstruction of Pine River, claimed to be a public highway. From the case presented, we gather that Pine River is a small stream, emptying into the St. Clair. That from its mouth, to a place called the “Deer *521Licks,” a distance of about six miles, it is navigable at all seasons, for boats, rafts, logs, &c., while above the “deer licks,” and to a point above where the parties used the same, the river was only capable of being used for floatage during the periodical freshets, or at least “not at ordinary…