Gough v. Conley

This suit was brought by Alvah O. Conley and twenty-one others, complainants, against Thomas D. Gough and wife and Charles F. Ball, Jr., and wife, defendants, to have a declaration of their rights with respect to a water system in the community of Ditchley, Northumberland county, and for an injunction.

The bill alleged that in 1934 a water system was established in the Ditchley area and the defendants granted to Ditchley, Incorporated, which was owned entirely by Mrs. Jessie Ball duPont, easements for water lines over their properties. These properties lay between the mansion house of…