Union Mill & Min. Co. v. Ferris

HILLYER, District Judge.

This suit was commenced on the fourth day of August, 1871, to enjoin the defendant from an alleged wrongful diversion of water from Carson river. Albert Ferris having since the commencement of the suit acquired the interest of Peter Lightle, one of the original defendants, has been substituted as a defendant. Lightle answered separately, and the present decision involves only the-questions at issue between the complainant and the defendant Albert Ferris. This is one among several causes instituted by the complainant against numerous residents along the Carson river, in…