Hass v. McManus
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Charlevoix; Mayne, J. Bill by Alfred E. Hass and others to enjoin William L. McManus, Jr., and others from maintaining a dam so as to interfere with the natural level of a lake. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
Walloon Lake is a body of fresh water lying partly in Charlevoix and partly in Emmet counties. The complainants, 18 in number, own real estate bordering on the lake, maintaining, not jointly, but severally, hotels, summer homes, boathouses, docks, accommodations for swimming. The outlet of the lake is Bear creek, or Bear river, which empties into Little Traverse Bay at Petoskey, seven or eight miles from the lake. The lake is about 80 feet above the level of Lake Michigan. The defendants own the land through which Bear creek flows, not only at the immediate outlet to the lake, but for about a…
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