Forrest Milling Co. v. Cedar Falls Mill Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Haiok District Court. — Hon. C. F. Couch, Judge. This is a contest over tlie rights .and interests of the respective parties in and to. a water power located upon and along the Cedar river, at the city of Cedar Falls.
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Appeal from Black Haiok District Court. — Hon. C. F. Couch, Judge. This is a contest over tlie rights .and interests of the respective parties in and to. a water power located upon and along the Cedar river, at the city of Cedar Falls. From a decree fixing and declaring the rights of the several parties and enjoining the defendants from making certain excavations in the main race, and declaring that plaintiffs had the right to excavate and deepen the tail races from their mills, so that they might have a “head” equal to the greatest on the aforesaid water power, the defendants, the Cedar…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
1 The facts are complicated, and the issues so involved that we find it very difficult to make a clear and comprehensive statement of the case. It appears that prior to the year 1848 one Sturgis was the owner of the land now known as the “Old Mill Square,” at the city of Cedar Falls. This tract comprises about thirty-eight acres of land, and included the water power which is now the subject of controversy. In April of that year, he conveyed an undivided three-fourths of this land to J. M. Overman, D. G. Overman, and Edwin Brown; and on the same day, but by a different instrument, he conveyed…
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