Excerpt from Reports Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court Pennsylvania, Vol. 9: Containing the Cases Decide in Part of May Term 1845 The State is never presumed to have parted with one of its franchises, in the absence of conclusive proof of such an intention; hence, a license accorded by a public law to a riparian owner to erect a dam in the Susquehanna river, and conduct the water upon his land for his own private purposes, is subject to any future provision which the State may make with regard to the navigation of the river; and if the State authorize a company to construct a canal which impairs the right of such riparian owner, he is not entitled to recover damages from the company. Error to the Common Pleas of Adams county. William Wright against the Susquehanna Canal Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.