Davis v. Winslow
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from tlie rulings and instructions of Walton, J., at Ifisi Prius; and on motion of the defendants to set aside the verdict. This was an action to recover for damages sustained by the plaintiffs, in consequence of the stoppage and detention of their logs by means of a boom erected by the defendants in the Androscoggin River, at Milan, in the State of New Hampshire.
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Exceptions from tlie rulings and instructions of Walton, J., at Ifisi Prius; and on motion of the defendants to set aside the verdict. This was an action to recover for damages sustained by the plaintiffs, in consequence of the stoppage and detention of their logs by means of a boom erected by the defendants in the Androscoggin River, at Milan, in the State of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs’ case, as set forth in the first count in their writ, is, — " tor that the plaintiffs, on the first day of May, A. D. 1861, and on each and every day between said first day of May and the day of the date of…
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Dickerson, J.
Case, to recover damages sustained by the plaintiffs,- in consequence of the stoppage and detention of their logs, by means of a boom erected by the defendants across the Androscoggin river, at Milan, in the State of New Hampshire.
It was admitted that the Androscoggin river, at the place in question, was a public highway, capable of, and being used for, floating logs and timber to market, and that the defendants, being owners of sawmills, at Berlin Falls, in New Hampshire, on said river, erected, for their own convenience and the operation…
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