Case ID: root_1/html/0129-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Nichols v. Pixly.
    A license from tlie town to erect a mill dam, no justification in an action for a private nuisance.
    Action of the case for a. nuisance in Poqnánnoek river, etc. by erecting a grist mill and dam, etc. Not guilty to the jury.
    The defendant relied much upon a license, which he had obtained from the town of Stratford, in whose, bounds said stream and dam is, to erect said mill and dam.
   By the Court.

The license, however it may estop the town from proceeding against the dam as a common nuisance, it can be no excuse or justification for an injury dono to private property. And verdict and judgment was for the plaintiff.