Beechley v. Harms

Two bills were filed in the circuit court of Sangamon county against appellant, each seeking a mandatory injunction to compel him to remove a certain dam constructed by him between his property and that of the complainants in the bills. The causes were consolidated in the circuit court and come here on one appeal. Appellee Jonas Beechley was complainant in one of the bills and appellees Sarah Barnes and others were complainants in the other bill.

Appellant is the owner of a forty-acre tract of land in Sangamon county on which the dam in question is located. Beechley owns the forty-acre tract…