Flambeau River Lumber Co. v. Railroad Commission

The following opinion was filed February 5, 1929:

Owen, J.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is now and has been for many years the owner of a sawmill on the Flambeau river, located at Ladysmith; that said sawmill in times past has been largely operated upon logs brought to it *136by floating the same down the Flambeau river; that during the years 1925-26 the plaintiff cut a large quantity of logs on the Flambeau river and its tributaries above said mill with a view of floating the same down said river to said mill; that the defendant had constructed a series of dams on said Flambeau river…