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Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land - Compensation On Condemnation, Gerald M. Stevens
Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land - Compensation On Condemnation, Gerald M. Stevens
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff owned a ranch comprising over 45,000 acres and fronting for six miles on the North Platte river. One and a half miles of the river frontage were taken by eminent domain proceedings for a dam and reservoir. Plaintiff claimed the value of his whole ranch was reduced by the loss of water rights, by the destruction of sheltering trees and brush, by the creation of a potential hazard to cattle, and by the threat of floods from breaking dam or dikes. He recovered damages on that basis. Reversing the judgment, the court held, riparian rights attached only to …
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 …
Easements - Extinguishment By Adverse Possession Of Servient Owner - Character Of Acts Necessary
Easements - Extinguishment By Adverse Possession Of Servient Owner - Character Of Acts Necessary
Michigan Law Review
In I 902, Y, the owner of riparian land, granted to W, by deed then recorded, the flowage rights over such land. Some years later by general warranty deed containing no reference to the easement, the servient land was conveyed to L, from whom by similar successive conveyances it came to the plaintiff. In the interval the flowage rights had passed to the defendant, and in 1931 the latter erected a dam across the river and flooded the plaintiff's land. Thereupon the plaintiff brought this action for damages. The trial court held that, though all the owners …