Ranstead v. The Wm. H. Brinsfield’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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1. ““It is the ease of a riparian owner who has cut a canal into his own land so as to allow vessels to go to his own property fronting on it, and then has disposed of portions of the land to different persons.” Also: “But it does not seem to me the analogy between the use of the waterway of this private basin and the use of a street is very close. The very purpose of the basin is that vessels may lie in it for the private owners of the wharves • abutting on it,” ete. Also: “In the absence of law or lawful custom, as to owners upon a water which is not so much a public navigable highway as it is a private basin, it seems to me the only legal right is that of unobstructed access each to his own wharf.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Davidson