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Show 4 that ( Mud Alud ) Lake , the bed of which was in controversy , had been completely drained long before suit was commenced . We shall later have occasion to refer to cases cited under this title and to other cases ( involving1 involving ) the question of navigability , and in another place will discuss those decisions upon which Complainant most relies . As we read those cases , they in no degree tend to support its contentions in the case at bar . In the Apendix to ( Complainant's Complainants ) brief ( what -what what ) is designated as ( "Substance Substance ) of Testimony on Navigation from Records in other Cases . " We have not had opportunity to examine a transcript of the record in either of those cases and had not anticipated any necessity of so doing , because for obvious reasons such testimony has no pertinency in this case , and , under ( well-settled wellsettled ) law , can not be considered in construing the decisions rendered in those cases . It is elementary that the basis of the ( Court's Courts ) decision in any case must be found ( "within within ) the four ( corners" corners ) of that decision . Probably more witnesses were sworn and testified on the subject of navigation in each of those cases than those whose testimony is digested in the Appendix . We are aware of no manner of determining which of the witnesses or what part of any testimony was believed or considered unworthy of credence by the Court . It definitely appears in Oklahoma v . Texas , 258 U . S . 574 , that the Court utterly rejected ( cer cer- cer ) tain evidence received in support of the claim of navigability , and the facts upon which its decision is based are there clearly stated . Whether the assumed facts were the actual facts is now wholly immaterial . Great stress is placed by Complainant on the testimony of certain ( witnesses -witnesses witnesses ) relative to silt and sediment in the waters of these streams . Defendant has made no tests of the water to determine its silt content ; and , in the light of the testimony of the Government witnesses with reference to silt content , the making of tests and computations would appear quite fruitless . As stated on page 87 of ( Complain Complain- Complain ) ( ant's ants ) brief , Mr . Hoyt estimates ( "that that ) the total amount of silt carried by the San Juan in suspension and as bed load during the course of a year is ( between 'between between ) 16,000,000 and 100,000,000 cubic yards . " As appears on the same page of the brief the witness Howard estimates that for the twelve month period ending September 30 , 1929 , 60,200,000 tons of ( sus- sus ) pended matter passed the Goodridge bridge ; whereas Love estimates that during the period of less than three months , |