Harrison v. Fite
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit by Fite and Acklen, officers and trustees of a voluntary association known as the “Big Lake Shooting Club,” for an injunction restraining the defendants, Harrison and 30 others, most of whom were averred to be market hunters and fishermen, from trespassing upon the property of the.club and killing wild fowl thereon for' shipment and sale.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit by Fite and Acklen, officers and trustees of a voluntary association known as the “Big Lake Shooting Club,” for an injunction restraining the defendants, Harrison and 30 others, most of whom were averred to be market hunters and fishermen, from trespassing upon the property of the.club and killing wild fowl thereon for' shipment and sale. The property in controversy is a part of the bed of what is known as “Big Lake” and “Little River,” located in the northeastern corner of the state of…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
The shores of navigable waters and the soils tinder them were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the states respectively; and the new states upon their admission to the Union have the same rights in respect thereof as the original states. As to lands bounded on unnavigable waters the United States assumes the position of a private owner subject to the general law of the state so far as its conveyances are concerned. In either case the question whether the title to the soil under the waters passes to the grantee of the shore land is determined by the law…
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