State v. Meninock

Citations

• 115 Wash. 528
• 197 P. 641
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 765

Syllabus

<p>Indians (1)—Indian Treaty—Right to Pish Outside Reservation—Easement—State Regulation. The reservation by the Yakima Indians of fishing rights at the usual and accustomed places in the territory ceded by them to the United States in the Treaty of 1859 did not foreclose the power of the state, outside the land specially granted to the Yakima Nation, to enact proper regulatory measures to protect the propagation of fish, applicable alike to the Indians and the citizens of the state (Mackintosh, Holcomb, and Bridges, JJ., dissent).</p>