Talk:Macombs Dam

Mill might have been a marble mill too
says
 * The race supplied power to a marble-sawing mill which stood on a quay between it and the creek, and of which Perkins Nicolls was proprietor.

--Lent (talk) 20:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Civil Disobedience
Even though I wrote it, I note that this does not meet the strict definition of civil disobedience, in that it was not passive. Property (the bridge and dam) was damaged. I do not think that Vigilantism is a better description though. Is there a better description for what was done? --Lent (talk) 16:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Macomb's Dam in Case Law on Public Nuisances
Apparently, the violent action against the dam became case law. and
 * Again, though a person may be authorized by an act of the legislature to erect and maintain a dam in a navigable river, yet if the dam is so built as to obstruct navigation beyond what the act authorized, it is a public nuisance which may be abated pro tanto.
 * And the right of abating a public nuisance is not affected by a statute imposing a penalty for the offense, unless negative words are added, evincing an intent to exclude common law remedies.

--Lent (talk) 19:22, 20 May 2010 (UTC) --Lent (talk) 19:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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