Columbus Power Co. v. City Mills Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Littlejohn. Muscogee superior court. July 19, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, P. J.
The Columbus Power Company brought against the City Mills Company an equitable action. Eor convenience we will hereinafter, when, referring to the parties by name, call the plaintiff “the Power Company” and the defendant “the Mills Company.” It was in the petition alleged that there was upon the property of the Mills Company a “natural head and fall of water,” in the Chattahoochee river, of not exceeding five feet; that this company had constructed in the river a dam of greater height and also a power-house, and that by means of these structures it was maintaining a private nuisance and thus…
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