Bertha K. Adams, as Administratrix of the Estate of George F. Adams, Deceased v. The Montana Power Company, a Montana Corporation

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• holding that federal courts had no jurisdiction over a tort claim on a stretch of the Missouri River dammed at both ends and situated entirely within the State of Montana
• “A waterway is navigable provided that it is used or susceptible of being used as an artery of commerce.” (emphasis added)
• “A waterway is navigable provided that it is used or susceptible of being used as an artery of commerce.”
• \A waterway is navigable provided that it is used or susceptible of being used as an artery of commerce.\
• “[a] river is considered ‘navigable’ if it is capable of being used by the public for the purposes of transportation and commerce.”
• “Neither non- 6 commercial fishing nor pleasure boating nor water skiing constitutes commerce. 7 Commerce for the purpose of admiralty jurisdiction means activities related to the business 8 of shipping.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).