Chattanooga & Tennessee River Power Co. v. Lawson
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM MARION. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— Feank L. Lynch, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justice Neil
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The declaration avers that the defendant in error was, with his family, occupying as his home a certain small parcel of land lying near the hank of the Tennessee river; that the plaintiff in error, in the year 1905, or 1906, began the construction of a dam across the river at Hale’s bar, about thirty-eight miles below the city of Chattanooga, and below the tract on which defendant in error was residing, as stated; that the dam was completed about December, 1913; that when this completion was effected the water above the dam immediately…
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