Village of Pine City v. Munch
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Pine county, Crosby, J., presiding, overruling their demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This is an action to restrain, by injunction, a public nuisance injuriously affecting the lives and health of the inhabitants of the village; and the principal question is the right of the plaintiff to maintain such an action. The appeal is from an order *343overruling a demurrer to the complaint. The nuisance complained of is that the defendants, (who have erected and maintained a dam across Snake river, within the corporate limits of the village, to accumulate water in a pond to. aid in sluicing logs, and by means of which large tracts of flat land within the village are overflowed when the…
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