Beissell v. Sholl

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.