Brown v. Reno Electric Light & Power Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nevada
At Law. Action by Samuel Brown against the Reno Electric Light & Power Company for breach of the covenants of a lease. Tried by the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWLEY, District Judge.
This action was brought to recover |5,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by the breach of certain covenants in a lease. On May i, 1887, the plain*230tiff, being tbe owner of certain land bordering on tbe Truckee river, in Washoe county, contracted with one J. L. Stevenson to put a dam in the river, to construct a flume, ditch, and tail race, and to dig and construct at the end of said ditch a “penstock of the dimensions required for a 48-inch Leffel wheel,” and to “put in place in full working order in said described penstock one Leffel water wheel, 48…
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