...transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent or manner of that use. If it be capable in its natural...navigable in fact and becomes in law a public river or highway.2 Applying these tests to a tributary of the Mississippi River in Tennessee, it was held that...

...: The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. See also United States v. Utah, 283 US 64, 82-83. Also we may note that included in "navigable waters"...

...that "the capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use." In The Montello, 87 US (20 Wall.) 430, 442, (1874), it was further stated by the Court that : * * *...

...Rather, The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. And the Supreme Court held, 87 US at 443, that the Fox River, which "has always been navigable in fact,...

...capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criteria of the navigability of a river rather than the extent and manner of that use. Standards of navigability were restated and summarized by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in Rochester...