Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit November 2, 1925, No. 4215 (Chesapeake Western Ry. v. Jardine)

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellants, as plaintiffs, filed a petition in the lower court against the Secretary of Agriculture, alleging therein that the United States is owner of a certain large forest reservation in the state of Virginia through which the North river flows; that the plaintiffs are lower riparian owners, and the said reservation is an upper riparian property upon the North