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enjoy the benefits of general acts regulating the driving of 

 logs and the collection of tolls, as well as of the special acts 

 regulating incorporated companies. * There have been 

 numerous court decisions defining the status, powers and lia- 

 bilities of such companies and corporations. 2 It has been 

 held that a boom includes not only the floating logs, spars, 

 or timbers used to confine other logs to a certain portion 

 of the surface of a body of water, 3 but also the piling and 

 other structures which hold the enclosing logs in place. 4 



(Footnote 6 concluded from preceding page) 



L. 1887, p. 98. No. 91, and Am'n'dt Apr. 4, 1889, Laws 1889, p. 49, Act. 



42; Annotated, Stat. 1913, P. 7476-7504, and sees. 4143, 4163). 

 Minn. Act June 26, 1889. Sess. L. 1889, p. 218, Act No. 188. Cf. Act. Mar. 2, 



1855, Stat. Minn. 1849-58, p. 826. 



See Gen'l St. 1913, Tiffany, Sees. 6261-6267 and cf. 5478, side booms. 

 Mo. Annotated Statutes 1906, sees. 1492-1516. Rev. Stat. 1909, sees. 3465- 



3488. 

 Nev. Act Mar. 3, 1866, Laws of 1866, p. 198, Ch. 99 (Gen. St. 1885. sees. 1064- 



71). 



N.Mex. Annotated Statutes 1915, sees. 3372-3373. 



N.Dak. Compare Compiled Laws 1913, sec. 3056. (General authority to any- 

 one provided no interference with navigation). See Rev. Code Dak. 



Terr. 1877, eh. 32, p. 145. 



Pa. Purdon's Digest, 1903, Rev. by Stewart, pp. 2342, 2354-55. 

 S. Dak. Compare Rev. Penal Code, 1903, sec. 3196. (General authority to any- 

 one provided no interference with navigation). 

 Wash. Annot. Code 1910, Rem. & Bal., sees. 7110-7126; cf. sees. 7106-7109 



(Tolls for use of logging road). 4378-4390. 

 W. Va. Chap. 121 of 1877 and amendments. See Code 1906, sees. 2498-2531; 



Code of 1913, Sees. 3115-3148. 

 Wis. Statutes 1913, sec. 1777e. 

 Wyo. Compare Comp. Stat. 1910, Mullen, sec. 828, ch. 67. 



See Watts v. Tittabawassee Boom Co., 52 Mich. 206; Anderson v. 



Thunder Bay River Boom Co., 61 Mich. 489. 



1. Hall v. Tittabawassee Boom Co., 51 Mich. 377, 16 N. W. 770. But see Garth 



Lbr. & Shingle Co. v. Johnson, 151 Mich. 205, 206. 



2. Me. Sibley v. Penobscot Lumbering Assoc., 93 Me. 399, 45 Atl. 293; In re 



Penobscot Lumbering Assoc., 93 Me. 391, 45 Atl. 290. 

 Mich. Ames v. Port Huron Log Driving Etc. Co., 6 Mich. 266. 

 Minn. Osborne v. Knife Falls Boom Corp., 32 Minn. 412, 21 N. W. 704, 50 Am. 



Rep. 59u. 

 Pa. Genesee Fork Imp. Co. v. Ives, 144 Pa. St. 114, 22 Atl. 887, 13 L. R. A. 



427; Power's Appeal, 23 Wkly Notes Cas. (Pa.) 485. 

 Wash. Nicomen Boom Co. v. North Shore Boom Etc. Co., 40 Wash. 315, 82 



Pac. 412; Grays Harbor Boom Co. v. McAmmant, 21 Wash. 465, 



58 Pac. 573; East Hoqmam Boom Etc. Co. v. Neeson, 20 Wash. 142, 



54 Pac. 1001. 



W. Va. Miller v. Hare (W. Va.) 28 S. E. 722 (Boom not a private nuisance). 

 U. S. Lindsay Etc. Co. v. Mullen, 176 U. S. 126, 20 S. Ct. 325, 44 L. Ed. 400; 



Sands v. Manistee River Imp. Co., 123 U. S. 288, 8 S. Ct. 113, 31 



L. Ed. 149; Duluth Lbr. Co. v. St. Louis Boom Etc. Co., 17 Fed. 



419, 5 McCrary 382. 

 Can. Queddy River Driving & Boom Co. v Davidson, 10 Can. Sup. Ct. 222. 



3. Clark v. Nelson Lbr. Co., 34 Minn. 289, 10 Am. & Eng. Corp. Cas. 399; Power's 



Appeal, 125 Pa. St. 175, 187, 17 Atl. 254. 11 Am. St. Rep. 882; See Gasper v. 

 Heimbach, 59 Minn. 102, 60 N. W. 1080, 53 Minn. 414, 55 N. W. 559. 



4. John Spry Lbr. Co. v. Steam Barge C. H. Green, 76 Mich. 320; See Rollins v' 



Clay, 33 Me. 132, 138; Farrand v. Clarke, 63 Minn. 181, 65 N. W. 361. 



