McMahan v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• water power law held to require all waters \navigable in fact for any purpose whatsoever\ be free of private obstruction
• when navigable waters may be damaged by the erection of a dam \it is clearly the duty of the state to appear in behalf of the public in the proceedings\
• when navigable waters may be damaged by the erection of a dam \it is clearly the duty of the state to appear in behalf of the public in the proceedings\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).