Maffet v. Quine

BELLINGER, District Judge.

In this suit the plaintiff seeks to enjoin the defendant from tearing down and destroying a certain flume, constructed and in operation prior to the commission by the defendant of the acts complained of, across the premises of the defendant, and used in connection with certain water rights and with the (tarrying on of the lumber business owned and carried on by the plaintiff and her lessees. The case was heard upon all questions involved, and thereafter the court dismissed the complaint for want of jurisdiction, upon the ground that it did not appear from the…