WATER POWER CO. v. WATER COMMISSIONERS

Nos. 28, 24.

168 U.S. 349 (1897)

ST. ANTHONY FALLS WATER POWER COMPANY v. ST. PAUL WATER COMMISSIONERS. MINNEAPOLIS MILL COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 29, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Rome G. Brown for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Charles S. Albert was on his brief.

Mr. James E. Markham and Mr. Herman W. Phillips for defendants in error.


Mr. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

It is claimed upon the part of the plaintiffs in error that by the decision of the court below they have been deprived of their property without due process of law. They urge that they have certain rights as riparian owners of land near St. Anthony Falls, bordering upon the Mississippi River, to the use of all the water as it would naturally flow past their land, and that this right is...

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