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Waters And Watercourses - Navigable Waters - Dried-Up Lake - Reliction, Daniel Hodgman
Waters And Watercourses - Navigable Waters - Dried-Up Lake - Reliction, Daniel Hodgman
Michigan Law Review
A meandered lake, during periods of normal rainfall covering 3000 acres, due to years of drought completely dried up. Plaintiff, the owner of land abutting on the lake, sued the defendant, a stranger, who entered on the dry bed and cut hay, plaintiff claiming ownership of that part of the dry bed where the hay was cut as relicted land. Held, that the lake which was deemed navigable before it dried up was still a navigable lake although no water was in it; that as a navigable lake the ownership of the bed was in the state in trust …
Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land
Waters And Watercourses - Extent Of Riparian Land
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff, a lower riparian owner, sued the defendant municipality for taking water from a stream in such quantity as to cause serious damage. The complaint alleged. that the defendant purchased land extending to the stream bank in 1927 and 1928, which it later took into its corporate limits, and that thereupon it diverted water to points within its corporate limits but beyond the watershed of the stream. Held, the defendant's demurrer to the complaint was properly overruled. Sayles v. City of Mitchell, (S. D. 1932) 245 N. W. 390.