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OBRECHT v. NATIONAL GYPSUM CO.

Docket Nos. 1, 2, Calendar Nos. 47,917, 47,984.

361 Mich. 399 (1960)

105 N.W.2d 143

OBRECHT v. NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY. SAME v. DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 16, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Brooker, for plaintiffs.

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, and Nicholas V. Olds, Assistant Attorney General, for intervening plaintiff State of Michigan, and for cross-appealing defendants Michigan Department of Conservation and its director.

John R. Watkins (Finck & Huber, Elmer E. Fink and William L. Rieth, of counsel), for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Goetz & Goetz & Foley (Thomas J. Foley, of counsel), for intervenors Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co., and The River & Harbor Improvement Association.

Victor G. Hanson, for intervenor The Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.

BLACK, J.

The last great frontiers of Michigan's public domain lie submerged between her thousands of miles of shore line and the navigable boundaries which, historically, have separated and now separate Michigan from Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ontario and Ohio.* Now that the St. Lawrence Seaway is making of the Great Lakes an "Eighth Sea," the courts of these inland coastal States may well brace themselves for a series of new questions...

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