Dilling v. Murray

This was a proceeding instituted by Murray against Pilling, in the Wayne Circuit Court, and trails*325ferred to the Common Pleas, the object of which was to enjoin Dilling from obstructing the flow of the water of a stream to the plaintiff’s mill, by the manner of erecting and maintaining a dam above it.

The complaint states that for fourteen years the plaintiff has been the owner of a mill and manufactory propelled by water on his own land; that in the spring of 1850 the defendant erected a dam across the stream above the plaintiff’s land, by which the water was diverted from its natural channel,…