...public and the riparian owner, and such test is found in their navigable capacity. Those rivers are regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact; and. as said in the case of The "Daniel Ball," 77 U. 8. 10 Wall. 557, 563, 19 L. ed. 9Ö9, 1001, "they are...

...held: 21 The Belfast v. Boon, 7 Wall. 624. 1868. 22 Eagle v. Fraser, 8 Wall. 15. 1869. Those rivers must be regarded as public, navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact and they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress in contradistinction...

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...and improve. It is national in its legal aspect. The Supreme Court has declared that "those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact." It is national in its prospective benefits. Every man, woman and child in the United States is directly...

...rivers in law which are navigable in fact. Rivers «re navigable in fact when they are used, or aro susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, on which trade and travel are, or nay \*> conducted, in the customary mode.« of trade and travel on...

...above as they are below the limits of tidewater, and some of them are navigable for great distances Ivy large vessels, which are not even affected by the...the customary modes of trade and travel on water." Thus a stream of sufficient capacity to float logs or timber to market has been held to be navigable...

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...navigability of rivers in this country, and under that test those rivers are regarded as navigable in law which are navigable in fact, and they are navigable...conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on the water. The Supreme Court of Michigan has repeatedly held that the beds of the streams, whether...

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...state that this loss was cansed by the overflow and shifting of the river current. Those rivers are regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. Packer v. Bird (137 US, 666). It is not shown that Cedar river at Waterloo is a navigable stream ;...