Luning v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dodge County. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Washington county circuit court for erecting and keeping up a mill-dam at or near the village of Ceclarburg, on a stream passing through that village, by means whereof the health of the citizens of that, village and vicinity was injured, and from which arose unpleasant and unwholesome vapors, and on account of which the inhabitants of that vicinity were made sick and diseased.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dodge County. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Washington county circuit court for erecting and keeping up a mill-dam at or near the village of Ceclarburg, on a stream passing through that village, by means whereof the health of the citizens of that, village and vicinity was injured, and from which arose unpleasant and unwholesome vapors, and on account of which the inhabitants of that vicinity were made sick and diseased. A change of venue was afterwards had to Dodge county. On the trial, the counsel for the plaintiff in error took exceptions to the…
1Opinion of the CourtLaerabee, J.
This case is brought to this court by a writ of error to the Dodge county circuit court. The plaintiff in error was indicted tor erecting and maintaining a mill-dam, which caused the water to overflow a large tract of heavily *219timbered land, in the immediate vicinity of the village of Cedarburg, in "Washington county, and which was alleged created unpleasant and unwholesome vapors and sickness to the inhabitants of that village. Many witnesses residing in the village were called by the counsel for the state to prove the situation of the mill-pond, the effect of the stagnant water upon standing…
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