Gove & Co. v. Island City Mercantile & Milling Co.

It appears from the bill of exceptions herein, that the respondents were contractors and builders, engaged in furnishing and putting up what is known as the “ roller process” for manufacturing flour. The appellants had a flouring mill at Island City, Union County, Oregon, and were engaged in operating it. The mill was the old style “burr process,” was run by water-power, the water being conducted in a ditch to the mill from the Grand Ronde River.

The respondents about the last of May or 1st of June, 1886, visited the appellants at their mill, and after examining it and the water-power by which…