Vail v. Mix

This was a hill for an injunction, brought by Algernon S. Vail, Alfred Brown, David Lynds, and Enos Van Kirk, on the 26th day of June, 1874, in the Kankakee county circuit court, to restrain appellees from repairing the mill dam across the Kankakee river, at Momence, in Kankakee county. Upon the hearing of a motion to dissolve the temporary injunction which had been granted, upon bill, and answers, and affidavits filed therewith, the court below dissolved the injunction and dismissed the bill.

Three of the complainants, Vail, Brown and Lynds, take this appeal to reverse the decree.

The leading…