Sunapee Dam Corporation v. Alexander

The plaintiff was granted a charter by the legislature in 1820. 8 Laws of N. H. 927. The preamble and parts of it are as follows:

“Whereas Josiah Stevens and his associates have petitioned the Legislature representing that they are proprietors of mills and mill privileges on Sugar river, having its source in Sunapee Lake and discharging itself into Connecticut river; that there is on Sugar river, occasionally, a deficiency of water . . . from said lake ...” [to give to said nulls a perfect operation; that said deficiency may be supplied from said lake by means of a dam and gates erected at…