Brockway v. Hydraulic Power & Light Co.

This is an injunction suit involving the alleged flooding of lands by damming. It was heard on pleadings and proofs, taken in open court, and comes here on an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Antrim county in chancery in favor of most of the complainants, requiring the defendant to lower the wasteweir of its dam on Intermediate river 24 inches, and restraining it from maintaining said dam at any greater height. The bill of complaint is filed by 12 riparian owners whose lands, amounting to several hundred acres, have a water frontage upon Intermediate lake of several miles in…