Wood v. State

• » » Indictment for a nuisance found in the Noble Circuit Court, which, on change of venue, was tried in the Lagrange Circuit Court. The charge is that Wood, on the 1st day of March, 1850, at the county of Noble, and from that day until, áse., at said county, injuriously and unlawfully did continue and maintain a certain mill-dam in, about and across a certain stream of water in said county called Elkhart river, thereby then and there causing said river to overflow and back upon the lands adjacent thereto, and around said mill-dam, above the same. By means whereof divers unwholesome smells,…