Miller v. Cornwell

Complainant brought this suit in chancery to abate in part a mill-dam at Geddes, between Ann *271Arbor and Ypsilanti, on tbe Huron river, and to get damages. The dam is the same which was litigated in Blake v. Cornwell, 65 Mich. 467 (33 N. W. Rep. 803).

The case presented, so far as essential to indicate the ■controversy, is this: Complainant, in 1880, bought a farm on the north side of Huron river, lying in part north of a highway running between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, .and in part between the highway and the river. At this time a dam at G-eddes on the mill property in question was down, and…