Pere Marquette Railway Co. v. Siegle

Tobacco river and Littlefield creek flow over a large part of the north half of the southeast quarter of section 26, in township 17 north, of range 5 west, near Farwell, Clare county, Michigan. The lands, together with those adjoining, belonged to Edmund Hall in the year 1870, when he built a dam with a head of 9 feet of water across the Tobacco river for logging purposes. The water flowing over the lands forms a mill pond. Three or four years after Hall built the dam, George L. Hitchcock built the present dam for a grist mill some 40 or 50 feet from the site of the original Hall dam which…