Minneapolis Mill Co. v. Board of Water Com'rs
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, the Minneapolis Mill Company, a corporation, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Thomas Canty, J., made July 22, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial. Plaintiff owned the right bank of the Mississippi River at the Falls of St. Anthony and built a wing dam into the river a few rods above the Falls and utilized the water power created thereby.
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Appeal by plaintiff, the Minneapolis Mill Company, a corporation, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Thomas Canty, J., made July 22, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial. Plaintiff owned the right bank of the Mississippi River at the Falls of St. Anthony and built a wing dam into the river a few rods above the Falls and utilized the water power created thereby. Another corporation, the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company, owned the left bank of the river and also built a wing dam into the river and the two dams were extended until they met at the thread of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
These cases were tried together in the court below, and, when plaintiffs rested, both actions were dismissed, upon defendant’s motion. From orders refusing new trial, appeals -were taken. Plaintiffs are corporations created in 1856 by acts of the Territorial Legislature, and authorized to build and maintain dams in the Mississippi river at the falls of St. Anthony, about ten miles above St. Paul, for the development of a water power, and for the use and sale of such power. One of these corporations, owning the shore on the east side of the river, erected a dam to the proper point in the river…
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