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1 Grant 197

Dalrymple v. Mead

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 10, 1856

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1856-01-10

In the spring of 1852, plaintiff had run some pieces of lumber out' of the Brokenstraw creek, a tributary of the Allegheny river, and had landed the same in the Allegheny river, near the mouth of said creek, at what is called Brokenstraw eddy. These pieces had been coupled together, for the purpose of forming a river-raft.

Decided 1856-01-10

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered

by Lowrie, J.

¶2— We think that the general law of navigable rivers, relating to the rights of people passing along them with their rafts, and occupying their eddies and landings, was properly explained by the court to the jury. If there is any special custom which sanctions a different rule for the present case, it has not become known to us, and cannot be admitted as part of the ease, without being proved, like other facts. None such having been proved, we can say nothing about its validity.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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