Adams v. Manning
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity for an injunction against the unreasonable detention and discharge of water.from a reservoir; brought to the Superior Court in the county of Windham. The following facts were found by a committee: The petitioner Adams, and the petitioner Warner as administrator on the estate of Thomas Warner, deceased, are respectively owners and in possession of ancient mill-sites on a stream of waiter in Woodstock.
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Bill in equity for an injunction against the unreasonable detention and discharge of water.from a reservoir; brought to the Superior Court in the county of Windham. The following facts were found by a committee: The petitioner Adams, and the petitioner Warner as administrator on the estate of Thomas Warner, deceased, are respectively owners and in possession of ancient mill-sites on a stream of waiter in Woodstock. On this same stream the respondents are joint owners and in possession of two ancient mill-sites situated above those of the petitioners. All these several mill-sites are quite…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
Bach of the petitioners is the owner of an ancient and valuable mill-site with mill in operation on a stream in the town of Woodstock; on the same stream and above these the respondents are joint owners of two like mill-sites, with an idle mill upon one and none upon the other. Above these a branch empties into the main stream; upon this, forty years since, a dam was erected for the purpose of creating a reservoir for storage which continued in beneficial use to 1867. In that year the grantors of the respondents submerged it by the erection of a dam twenty rods below, at which point they were…
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