Hazelton v. Putnam
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The complainants, Aaron and Amos Putnam, filed their bill against the defendant, Hazelton, alleging that they owned a certain mill and water power used in running it, on certain premises therein described, and that they had expended $2,500 in building said mill and improving said privilege, the full and ■undisturbed enjoyment of which they had had from 1841 to 1844; that the water which propelled said mill was conducted in…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The complainants, Aaron and Amos Putnam, filed their bill against the defendant, Hazelton, alleging that they owned a certain mill and water power used in running it, on certain premises therein described, and that they had expended $2,500 in building said mill and improving said privilege, the full and ■undisturbed enjoyment of which they had had from 1841 to 1844; that the water which propelled said mill was conducted in two races which joined before entering the flume, one of which extended about two hundred and eighty rods to a small…
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
This is an appeal from the Milwaukee county circuit court. The complainants below, and the appellees in this court, Amos Putnam and Aaron Putnam, allege that in the month of April, 1840, the appellant, Orrin Hazelton, by parol, consented and permitted complainants, Putnams, to build a saw mill and erect a dam upon their land, in'such a manner as to flow water upon the land of appellant; and did also, by parol, consent, and permit and agree, that complainants should cut a race across the lands of the appellant for the purpose, and in such a manner as to divert the waters of “ Stickney run”…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Cook v. StearnsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1814
- Mumford v. WhitneyNew York Supreme Court · 1836
- Phillips v. ThompsonNew York Court of Chancery · 1814
- Prince v. CaseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1835
- Cabell v. Cabell's AdministratorCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1858
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