Eagles Five, LLC v. Lawton

The dispute at issue in this case centers around a pipeline that runs from freshwater springs located on defendants’ property across a portion of plaintiffs’ land to a pump house on defendants’ land. In 2006, before it could reach defendants’ pump house, all the water in the pipeline was being diverted to plaintiffs’ property through a valve installed on the pipeline by plaintiffs’ predecessors-in-interest. For that reason, defendants placed a cap on the pipeline, shutting off the water altogether for a period of time. Plaintiffs filed an action and asserted that, pursuant to the terms of an…