THE MENTOR HARBOR YACHTING CLUB v. M. LAGOONS

Nos. 35783 and 35784.

170 Ohio St. 193 (1959)

THE MENTOR HARBOR YACHTING CLUB, APPELLEE, v. MENTOR LAGOONS, INC., APPELLANT, ET AL. THE MENTOR HARBOR YACHTING CLUB, APPELLEE, v. MENTOR LAGOONS, INC.; NOZIK, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis and Mr. Robert W.Poore, for appellee.

Mr. Albert C. Nozik, for appellants.


MATTHIAS, J.

The question for determination is whether the Mentor Harbor watercourse flowing into Lake Erie constitutes a navigable body of water. If it is a naturally navigable watercourse it is public. In view of our determination of this question, a consideration of other issues presented in this cause is unnecessary.

The division of watercourses into navigable and nonnavigable is merely a method of dividing them into public and private, which is the more...

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