Mayor of Americus v. Mitchell

Hall, Justice.

[B. O. Mitchell filed a bill against the mayor and council of Americus, alleging that the defendants were proceeding *378to consider the question of abating a mill-pond owned by him, as a nuisance; that the pond was connected with a grist-mill; that he had expended large sums of money upon it; that it was not, in fact, a nuisance; that the mayor, etc., had no jurisdiction to abáte it, but they had declared their intention of so doing, and that, from the circumstances and information which he had received, he believed that, at once upon declaring it a nuisance, they would proceed to…