Boggs v. Clifton

Gif Lon was the plaintiff below, and Boggs the defendant. The complaint contains two counts. The first charges, substantially, that the defendant had built a mill-dam across K'cPapoo creek, and constructed a mill-race, which caused the plaintiff’s lands, (describing them,) to be overflowed, whereby he was damaged, &c. And the second alleges, in effect, that the defendant neglected to erect head gates, and failed to keep the embankments along the millrace, and along the banks of the creek, in the immediate vicinity of his mill-dam, in sufficient repair; and that by reason of such neglect, the…