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1 Smith & H. 141

Fairfield v. Browning

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1848

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1848-11-15

Case, by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error for constructing a mill-dam across a certain stream, below Browning’s mill, and thereby causing the water to overflow said mill, &c. The defendants pleaded the general issue and liberum tenementum. The latter plea was demurred to and the demurrer sustained.

Relies on Gronour v. Daniels

Decided 1848-11-15

Blackford, J.

¶1— “This instruction is objected to, on the ground that the charge against the defendants, which was for erecting the dam, &c., was not established by proof of their merely keeping it up. But supposing this instruction to be erroneous, still the defendants cannot complain of it; because, after it was given, the court, at the defendants’ request, gave a contrary instruction, just such a one as the defendants say ought to have been given. The instruction thus subsequently given, is as follows : ‘ The jury must find, from the evidence, that the defendants raised their dam above the usual height, and thus caused the water to overflow the plaintiff’s wheel, or they must find for the defendant.’ There is no error, therefore, in this part of the ease.” Gronour v. Daniels, 7 Blackf. 108. Acby v. Rapelye, 1 Hill, 9.

¶2Judgment affirmed, &c.

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