 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 750 sider
...large rivers of the country over which rafts of lumber of great value are constantly taken to market. It would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country,...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its... | |
 | 1875 - 722 sider
...large rivers of the country , over which rafts of lumber of great value are constantly taken to market. It would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country,...not be treated as a public highway. The capability ot use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce, affords the true criterion of the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 840 sider
...case in hand, and we think the question must be answered in the affirmative. Hickok v. Him:. ***** It would be a narrow rule to hold that In this country, unless a river wu capable of being navigated by steam or sail vessels, It oould not be treated as a public highway.... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 sider
...depend on the mode by which commerce is or may be conducted, nor the difficulties attending navigation. The capability of use by the public for purposes of...transportation and commerce, affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it is capable in its... | |
 | 1901 - 1164 sider
...Ed. 391, where the language of Chief Justice Shaw, supra, was repeated and indorsed, it was said that "the capability of use by the public for purposes...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use." It was held in Haines... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 914 sider
...large rivers of the country over which rafts of lumber of great value are constantly taken to market. It would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country,...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its... | |
 | Ernest Howard Ruffner - 1885 - 208 sider
...of the large rivers of the country over which rafts of great value are constantly taken to market. It would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country,...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. These, and many similar... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1886 - 968 sider
...in the customary modes of trade and travel on water." And in The Montello, 20 Wall. 430, it is said: "It would be a narrow rule to hold, that in this country,...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its... | |
 | Robert Desty - 1893 - 722 sider
...in law which are navigable in fact (The Montello, 11 Wall. 411; the General Cass, 1 Brown, 334), and the capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce is the true criterion of the navigability of a river, and not the extent and manner of that use. (The... | |
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It would be a narrow rule to hold that in this country unless a river was capable of being navigated by steam or sail vessels, it could not be treated as a public highway. 
