State v. Franklin Falls Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
STATEMENT OF FACTS. Informations, filed by the attorney general against tbe defendants for not providing suitable fishways over the dams across the Winnipiseogee river, in Franklin. One of the informations is against the Franklin Falls Company and Walter Aiken ; the other three are each against the Franklin Falls Company alone.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS. Informations, filed by the attorney general against tbe defendants for not providing suitable fishways over the dams across the Winnipiseogee river, in Franklin. One of the informations is against the Franklin Falls Company and Walter Aiken ; the other three are each against the Franklin Falls Company alone. For the purpose of raising the questions of law likely to arise, and determining the same, it is agreed that the dam named in the first information was built in 1821, and the other three in 1809, 1852 and 1804, respectively, and that each had been kept up by their…
1Opinion of the Court
* Smith, J.
Some facts, material to a decision of this case, though oniitted in the agreed statement, are not understood to be in controversy. The Winnipiseogee river is the outlet of Lake Winnipiseogee. About sixteen miles from the lake it joins the Pemigewasset river, and the two united form the Merrimack river, which flows in a southerly course through New Hampshire to Massachusetts, and in a winding course through Massachusetts to the sea. The' Winnipiseogee river is above the ebb and flow of the tide, and is not used for purposes of navigation. † The Merrimack, within New *250Hampshire, is…
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