APPEAL COURT.
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(put rust isaoourmt.) Wellinotoh, OctoberM. Id the Court of Appeal, tin am* of Douagheyv. Brennan, judgment ww reserved. The case of Mueller r. the Taupiri Coal Mines Company, Limited, was commenced. The defendant oompauy is the owner o! Iwdt on both fides of the WoikUo River at Huotly, and baa tunnelled under the rim and mined for coal. Plaintiff ii Ooatehsioner of Crown Auokla&a; and bring the actios for an injoAotioa against the continuance of mining tai for an recount of the ooal taken out. The Waikato is navigable, bat Ml tidal at the point in question. The question involved is whether theQrowm grant of land showing such a river ai the Waikato as its boundary eervoa a* a gnnt of the bed of the river to tM middle. Defendant! contend that k so, except where the river is navigable, and that the term navigability im law does not mean navigability in bet, bus applies only to rivers as far as they are ailected by the ebb and flew of tin tide. Mr. Theo. Oooper and Dr. Findlay aro for the plaintiff, and Mem. H. D. Bell and Tunks for the defondant company. -jLi
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 200, 17 October 1900, Page 2
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