Hoxsie v. Hoxsie

The bill in this cause was filed to restrain a private nuisance. The chief complaint made by it was that defendant, wdio was the owner of a saw-mill and foundry on the waters of a stream which empties into Grand Traverse Bay, was accustomed to cast the sawdust into the stream, whereby the water was rendered ■ unfit for use, the valuable fish therein destroyed or driven away, and complainant’s dam for his own mill below gradually filled up. A further grievance, but one which the bill made less prominent, was, that the mill-dam of defendant at times detained the water unreasonably, and at other…