City of Salem Co. v. Salem Flouring Mills Co.

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in a suit to enjoin the appellant from the construction of a certain ' dam upon what is known as Mill Creek, in the city of Salem. The parties are both private corporations, organized under the laws of the State of Oregon for the purpose of operating mills and manufacturing flour, and doing a general milling business. The respondent alleged in its complaint that it owned and operated two large flouring mills run by water-power supplied through the channel of Mill Creek, running among other places through the city of Salem, until it reached a point near…