OTIS CO. v. LUDLOW CO.

No. 73.

201 U.S. 140 (1906)

OTIS COMPANY v. LUDLOW MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 12, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Boyd B. Jones, with whom Mr. Charles L. Gardiner and Mr. John J. Winn were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James B. Carroll and Mr. William H. Brooks, with whom Mr. Walter S. Robinson was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendants in error from flooding the plaintiff's land by means of a dam erected under the Massachusetts Mill Act. The injunction is asked on alternative grounds — either that the Mill Act does not authorize the dam, or that, if it does, then it is contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States...

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