Lucas v. Ashland Light, Mill & Power Co.
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie district court for Saunders county: George E. Corcoran, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtSedgwick, J.
In 1873 Oscar M. Garter prosecuted proceedings in ad quod damnum in the district court for Saunders county, and in the following year obtained a judgment in that action, establishing his right to erect and maintain a dam across Wahoo creek on certain lands then owned by him near the town of Ashland, in said county. This dam by the judgment was not to be maintained more than 15 feet high above low-water mark, and damages were allowed to the owners of certain riparian lands which it was found would be injured by raising the water to that height. This defendant succeeds to these rights by mesne…
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