Carriger v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga.

TujrNEY, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

Tbe plaintiff is, and has been for about twenty years, the owner of a tract of land in Hamblen county, through which the defendant’s road was erected before his purchase. There is a valley running north and south in which the land is situated. About one and a half miles south of the farm is a spring, from which Riggs’ branch runs about one-fourth of a mile northward into a sink, and disappears in ordinary time of water. "West of this is another, known as the Morris branch, rising about one mile from the railroad and runs to within about half a…