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SEUFERT BROS. CO. V. UNITED STATES
(1919 – US SUPREME COURT)
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I An Oregon Corporation plead its case was distinguished from Winans because Yakima Tribe fishing rights
did not extend to the Oregon side of the Columbia river, because the Tribe's treaty ceded lands only to
the middle of the Columbia River. 249 U.S. 194 (1919).
I "The 'servitude' is one existing only where there was an habitual and customary use of the premises,
which must have been so open and notorious during a considerable portion of each year, that any
person, not negligently or wilfully blind to the conditions of the property he was purchasing, must have
known of them." 249 U.S. 194, 199.
I Second US Supreme Court case using Canons of Treaty Construction to interpret Stevens Treaties.View entire presentation