Woodward v. Seely
Illinois Supreme Court
This is a hill in chancery, alleging that some time in the spring of the year 1835, Luther Woodward, one of the complainants, in company with one Levi Woodward, came to La Salle county, and became acquainted with William Seely, one of the respondents.
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This is a hill in chancery, alleging that some time in the spring of the year 1835, Luther Woodward, one of the complainants, in company with one Levi Woodward, came to La Salle county, and became acquainted with William Seely, one of the respondents. That Seely told Luther Woodward, that he, Seely, owned an hydraulic privilege on the Big Vermilion river, where he had erected a saw mill; said Seely also told Woodward, that there was another water privilege on the said stream, immediately below the one occupied by him, and recommended Woodward very urgently to purchase and improve the same, by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Trumbull :*
This bill was filed to restrain the defendants from prosecuting certain actions which they had commenced, and perpetually to enjoin them from instituting others, to recover damages for the overflow of their lands; the complainants alleging that said overflow was by the license and.permission of the defendants, and occasioned by the erection of a mill-dam upon their own land, which they had been at great expense in constructing. None of the actions at law had been disposed of, when the bill was filed, though several were then pending, and the defendants were…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Cook v. StearnsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1814
- West v. Mayor of New-YorkNew York Court of Chancery · 1844
- M'Kellip v. M'IlhennySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
- Thompson v. GregoryNew York Supreme Court · 1809
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- People ex rel. Deneen v. Economy Light & Power Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1909
- St. Louis National Stock Yards v. Wiggins Ferry Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Boland v. WaltersIllinois Supreme Court · 1931
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