Smith v. Dresselhouse

The title to two parcels of land, one on either bank of the river Raisin, theretofore owned and, with the appurtenant water power, conveyed in severalty, upon each of which parcels a mill, operated by water power, had for many years existed, passed to a single owner. The water power is not created by the use of the water from the river in its natural state. There is a pond or reservoir, a dam holding the water and causing it to overflow a considerable territory. The owner, under date June 6, 1878, mortgaged both parcels of land and in the mortgage conveyed, also,

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