Wingen v. May

Action in equity for leave to construct a dam across an outlet leading from Rice Lake, in Blue Earth county, upon premises owned by the defendants, and for an injunction restraining them from interfering with the same, and from maintaining a ditch in said outlet. It is claimed byplaintiffs and denied by defendants that the latter constructed a ditch in and deepened said outlet in the years 1877 and 1886, which *256operated to lower the water in Rice Lake approximately three or three- and-a-half feet. All the parties were owners of land adjacent thereto, and it appears that said lake is meandered,…