Stock v. City of Hillsdale

The bill in this case is filed to obtain an injunction restraining the defendant from increasing the capacity of its water plant or from laying any more pipe into Bawbeese Laxe and connecting the same with said water plant, and thus diverting the water from the water of the St. Joseph river to the damage of the complainant as a lower riparian owner. The bill alleges: That the complainant is, and for many years has been, the owner of the water power of the St. Joseph river at the city of Hillsdale, and also of the water power at Litchfield in the county of Hillsdale; that he has expended many…