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Municipal Corporations - Liability To Riparian Owners For Pollution Of Stream
Municipal Corporations - Liability To Riparian Owners For Pollution Of Stream
Michigan Law Review
A stream into which the plaintiff in error dumped its sewage flowed through the lands of defendant in error. Odors from the stream, deposits of foreign substances on the banks, and the pollution of the waters about the farm of the defendant in error constituted a nuisance. Held, the city is liable to one suffering from the nuisance, irrespective of whether it is exercising a governmental function in the installation of the sewer system. Oklahoma City v. Tyetenicz, 175 Okla. 228, 52 P. (2d) 849 (1935).
Waters And Watercourses - Riparian Rights In Streams Flowing Through Several States
Waters And Watercourses - Riparian Rights In Streams Flowing Through Several States
Michigan Law Review
A special master appointed by the Court after the filing of a bill by the state of Washington praying an injunction against the state of Oregon found that inhabitants of Oregon had been diverting water from the Walla Walla River, a non-navigable stream, by means of a dam for over fifty years for use in irrigating their lands which would otherwise be arid and had been for a long time pumping some nine thousand acre feet of water per annum from wells bored on their lands. The state of Washington claimed this diversion materially injured an irrigation project known as …
Constitutional Law-National Power Over Navigable Streams - Property Clause - Corporations - Stockholders' Suit
Michigan Law Review
The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the TVA case raises issues of extreme importance not only in regard to the interpretation of the property clause of the federal Constitution, but also in regard to the requisites for a suit by minority stockholders of a corporation questioning the actions of the corporate management.