French v. Owen

By the Court,

Smith, J.

This was a proceeding under the territorial act of 1840, in relation to mills and mill dams, approved January 13th, 1840, and which was repealed by the state legislature, January 1st, 1850. .

On the 26th day of December, 1851, Hains F. Owen, the defendant in error, filed in the office of the Circuit Court of Columbia county, against John M. French, the plaintiff in error, a complaint, in conformity with the provisions of the act of 1840, to recover damages occasioned by the flowing of the complainant’s lands by means of the erection of a mill dam by the defendant below.

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