Fox v. Holcomb

G-bates, Ch. J:

Tbe defendants maintain a dam on Pine River at St. Louis, which sets the water back on certain lands of which complainants claim to be owners. The height of the dam is practically increased somewhat by slash-boards. Complainants maintained that the setting bade the water on their lands was without right, was injurious to health, and caused damage to their lands. The cause was heard on pleadings and proofs, and the court decreed that defendants should be perpetually restrained after April 1, 1875, from flowing the parcel of Mrs. Luce, so far as caused by the slash-boards, and…