Miller v. Bank of Belleville

The bill is filed by a number of landowners to restrain defendant from flooding lands. The specific relief asked for is the lowering of a dam maintained by defendant Bank of Belleville 13 inches, the maintenance and operation in said dam of suitable flood gates. The dam is built in the Huron river on section 21, in Yan Burén township, Wayne county. The right of defendant to maintain the dam is not denied, nor the right to flow such lands and to such extent as they were flooded by a dam built about the year 1839, and known as the “Bell Dam.” Defendant claims no other or greater rights than…