Rochester Electric Light Co. v. Rochester Power Co.

In 1865, William H. Ward and James M. Whitney were severally the owners of several lots lying consecutively along the river front on tile east bank of the Genesee river, at Rochester. Ward’s lots lay to the south of those of Whitney, except that one lot of the former (lot B) was interposed between two lots of the latter, and that one other of Ward’s lots (lot 16) lay north of all the lots of Whitney. On the lot last-mentioned Ward had water-power which he desired to transmit to his lots on the south, and he agreed with Whitney for the right to lay a line of shafting, for that purpose, through…