Guynn v. Wabash Water & Light Co.
Indiana Supreme Court
From Grant Superior Court; Robert M. VanAtta, Judge. Action by Katherine M. Guynn against the Wabash Water and Light Company. Prom a judgment for defendant, the plaintiff appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1405 Burns 1908, Acts 1901 p. 590.)
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment for appellee rendered on conclusions of law and a special finding of facts in an action wherein appellant sought to enjoin appellee from maintaining a dam across a natural watercourse, thereby backing water upon and over lands of appellant, and to recover damages therefor.
*488Appellant was the upper and appellee the lower adjoining riparian owners of real estate through which flowed a natural watercourse known as Treaty Creek. On October 20, 1908, appellee constructed on its own land across such stream a eencrete dam three feet in height for the purpose of…
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