Halstead v. Young

Three questions are involved in this appeal.

Was Judge Doty, of the circuit court for the county of Oakland, in error when he granted a rehearing in a chancery canse heard by the late Judge Covert, after a finding of facts had been signed and filed but in which no decree had been entered by Judge Covert previous to his death?

Are defendants Young and wife, in the words of appellants “ entitled to maintain more than an eight-foot head of water at the dam on their property?”

Did defendants Young and wife acquire a prescriptive right to back water upon the lands owned by D. A. Hayward, one of the…