Houck v. Yates

Citations

• 82 Ill. 179

Syllabus

<p>1. Mississippi biveb—not a, nmigahle stream according to common law definition. Whilst the Mississippi river is a navigable stream in fact, and has been so declared and treated for years, yet it is not such a stream as is by the common law termed navigable.</p> <p>2. Same—rights of riparian owner. If. the Mississippi river forms the boundary of land granted by the United States, the grantee becomes a riparian owner, and ■ his grant extends to the center of the thread of the current.</p> <p>3. Same—when considered the houndary line of land. A meandered line run by the United States surveyor between the Mississippi river and a fractional quarter section of land, merely for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction, can not be regarded as a boundary line, where no monuments are established, and where such line does not appear upon the plats in the United States land office, but in such case the river will be considered as the boundary line.</p>