Stenberg v. County of Blue Earth
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Blue Earth county for an injunction restraining defendants from constructing a permanent dam across the natural outlet of Jaclcson lake.
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Action in the district court for Blue Earth county for an injunction restraining defendants from constructing a permanent dam across the natural outlet of Jaclcson lake. The complaint, among1 other matters, alleged that Jackson lake was fed from divers inlets, but principally by means of a runway which drained several hundred acres of low marshy land lying to the south and southwest of the lake; that at the northeasterly side of the lake there was a well-defined natural outlet, which was the only possible .outlet; that plaintiff and her children resided upon land adjacent to said lake about…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The plaintiff and appellant sought to enjoin the construction of a permánent dam across the natural outlet of Jackson lake in Blue Earth county. The county commissioners had begun to make the dam pursuant to chapter 104 of the Laws of 1907 (R. L. Supp. 1909, § 434-2), providing that the county board in any one year may appropriate. not to exceed $300 for erecting or maintaining sufficient dams or embankments upon or along the shores of the *120lake to keep and maintain the water in the lake at its natural and usual height and level. (The italics are ours.) The lake in question was shallow, about…
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