Trout Brook Co. v. Willow River Power Co.

The Willow river is a stream twenty-five miles long, rising in the northeasterly corner of St. Croix *619county, running in an irregular generally southwesterly direction to New Richmond, and from thence southwesterly to Hudson, where it discharges into the St. Croix river, or Lake St. Croix, as it is sometimes called, at the city of Hudson. At the time in question the New Richmond Roller Mills in the city of New Richmond owned and operated a small dam with a drainage area of one hundred fifty-eight square miles. It is the first dam located on the river and is eight or nine miles upstream from…