Miller v. Troost
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The defendants in this case appeal from a judgment of the District Court for 'Winona county, entered against them, upon the findings of the court, before whom the case was tried without a jury. A sufficient statement of the case will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
G-ileillan, Cli. J.
This is a controversy between the upper and lower proprietors upon the Rolling-stone Creek, in the county of Winona, involving the right of the latter, the defendants, to proceed under chapter 31 of the General Statutes, to obtain the right to maintain a dam on their premises, at such a height as to set the water back upon that part of the creek running through the premises of the former, the plaintiffs. The grantor of the plaintiffs, as early as 1863, commenced operations for the erection on his premises, of a dam for the purpose of a flouring- mill, which…
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