LEWIS BLUE POINT OYSTER CO. v. BRIGGS

No. 272.

229 U.S. 82 (1913)

LEWIS BLUE POINT OYSTER CULTIVATION COMPANY v. BRIGGS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Howard Taylor, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Denison, with whom Mr. Louis G. Bissell was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action to restrain the defendant in error from dredging upon certain lands under the waters of Great South Bay in the State of New York. The defense was that the lands upon which he was engaged in dredging were under the navigable waters of the bay, which was a navigable area of the sea, over which enrolled and registered vessels passed in interstate commerce...

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