Brown used the Mud Pond waterway across Brandreth land despite the landowner's no-trespassing sign and cable across the stream.

WSJ: Judge: NY paddlers can use stream on private land

The landowners, Brandreth Park Association and Friends of Thayer Lake, had sued Phil Brown of Saranac Lake after he wrote an article in the Adirondack Explorer newspaper in 2009 about canoeing from Lake Lila to Little Tupper Lake in the state-owned Whitney Wilderness Area.

WSJ: Judge: NY paddlers can use stream on private land