4 U.S. 211
4 Dall. 211
1 L.Ed. 804
Beissell
v.
Sholl.
Wagoner
v.
Same.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
March Term, 1800
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.'
Tried in the Circuit Court, Northampton county, June 1800, before SHIPPEN, C. J. and YEATES, J.
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