Richardson v. Sims

Citations

• 118 Miss. 728
• 80 So. 4

Syllabus

<p>1. Water and Water Courses. Title of riparian proprietor. Non-navigable lakes. -</p> <p>The riparian owner of a non-navigable lake takes title to the middle or center of the lake ratably with other riparian owners, if there be any.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>With reference to the acquisition of title to the bed of the lake by virtue of riparian ownership where such ownership consists of a mere rim of the lake whenever it clearly appears to the court that to enforce the general rule would perpetrate' a manifest injustice to the grantor, an exception to the general rule may be made.</p> <p>3. Waters and Water Courses. Non-navigable lakes. Riparian proprietor. Meander line.</p> <p>The title of a riparian owner on a non-navigable lake does not merely extend to the water’s edge where the lake bounding on the government’s plat is shown to have been meandered; the meander lines having been run to ascertain the exact quantity of upland land to be charged for by the government in granting riparian, land and not for the purpose of limiting the title of the grantee by it.</p> <p>4. Same.</p> <p>Such government grants of the upland do not limit the title to the water’s edge, nor are the abutting waters deemed part of the public domain, separate and distinct from the shore land conveyed according to the official plat.</p> <p>5. Waters and Water-Courses. Non-navigable lakes. Riparian ownership.</p> <p>The same rule as to riparian ownership on non-navigable streams applies to shore owners on non-navigable lakes.</p> <p>6. Same.</p> <p>Non-navigable lakes are subject to private ownership and title to ■ the bed goes with the shore ownership as appurtenant thereto.</p> <p>7. Navigable Waters. Title of riparian owner.</p> <p>The riparian owner takes to the center of the thread of navigable streams, subject to the public right of use, and navigation; tidewater, navigable streams and lakes belonging to the public for purposes of commerce, fisheries and other uses.</p> <p>8. Common Law. E