Court Opinion

ID: 84721
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2010-04-28 15:59:27+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:16.395280
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4 U.S. 211 (____)
4 Dall. 211
Beissell
versus
Sholl.[(1)]
Wagoner
versus
Same.
Supreme Court of United States.

CASE, for diverting a water course. The COURT left the facts to the jury, under this general statement of the law: "That every man, in this country, has an unquestionable right, "to erect a mill upon his own land; and to use the water, passing "through his land, as he pleases: subject only to this limitation, "that his mill must not be so constructed and employed, "as to injure his neighbour's mill; and that, after using the "water, he returns the stream to its ancient channel."
NOTES
[(1)]  Tried in the Circuit Court, Northampton county, June 1800, before SHIPPEN, C.J. and YEATES, J.