Bonner v. Welborn
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, in Merriwether Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, February Term, 1849. In 1843, Alfred Welborn erected a mill-dam on his own land, adjoining the property known as the Merriwether Warm Springs, then the property of Seymour R. Bonner. In 1845, Seymour R. Bonner sold and conveyed this property to the plaintiff in error, Robert Bonner.
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Assumpsit, in Merriwether Superior Court. Tried before Judge Hill, February Term, 1849. In 1843, Alfred Welborn erected a mill-dam on his own land, adjoining the property known as the Merriwether Warm Springs, then the property of Seymour R. Bonner. In 1845, Seymour R. Bonner sold and conveyed this property to the plaintiff in error, Robert Bonner. Iu 1847, Robert Bonner brought an action against Alfred Welborn, alleging that he had been damaged $20,000. “ For that, whereas your petitioner, before and at the time of the committing of the grievances by the said Welborn, hereinafter mentioned,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
The first assignment charges error in the decision of the presi*301ding Judge, in ruling out the testimony which went to show the receipts and profits of the Warm Springs establishment, in 1S45, and in 1846, and the reasons for the difference in the amount of receipts for these two years; and in ruling out the testimony of certain witnesses, going to show that they, (the witnesses,) were deterred from visiting, and kept away from the Springs, by the sickness there in 1846, and on account of a mill pond erected by the defendant in error.
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