Ryan v. Brown
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery, from Chippewa Circuit. The bill in this case was filed in the Circuit Court for the county of Chippewa, in Chancery, to restrain ■ the defendants from committing a trespass on the property of complainant by removing a dock, warehouse and certain sunken cribs, intended as the support of a dock in St. Mary’s river, at the village of Sault Ste Marie.
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Appeal in Chancery, from Chippewa Circuit. The bill in this case was filed in the Circuit Court for the county of Chippewa, in Chancery, to restrain ■ the defendants from committing a trespass on the property of complainant by removing a dock, warehouse and certain sunken cribs, intended as the support of a dock in St. Mary’s river, at the village of Sault Ste Marie. An injunction issued, which, upon final hearing, was dissolved as to one portion of the property, and made perpetual as to the residue. The defendants appealed to this Court. Complainant files his bill for a perpetual injunction…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.
Complainant being owner of certain dock property in the St. Mary’s River at the foot of the Rapids, and just below the Canal entrance, had certain cribs, placed there by his grantor, intended as a foundation for additional docks on a line with the outer end of the old dock, which last, after the canal was built, had presented an angle to the line of direction of the canal. The new docks, as projected, were *206intended to remove this angular projection, by building a dock in a line substantially coinciding in direction with the side of the canal as extended. The old dock, being at the…
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