Price v. Marinette & Menominee Paper Co.

The complaint alleges in substance that the plaintiff is the owner of certain premises; that on April 1, 1920, the Marinette & Menominee Paper Company erected, dams across the Menominee river near the plaintiff’s land and that the defendants have ever since maintained said dams, “whereby the said waters in the said Menominee river were thereby made to overflow and seep through the banks of said river and onto the plaintiff’s land; that the raising of the water in said river by means of said dams as aforesaid has ever since raised the normal water level existing beneath the said plaintiff’s…