Eliason v. Grove
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County {Stake, J.) At the trial the Court below granted the defendant’s prayers instructing the jury to find for the defendant and rejected the plaintiff’s prayers, which were as follows : xst.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County {Stake, J.) At the trial the Court below granted the defendant’s prayers instructing the jury to find for the defendant and rejected the plaintiff’s prayers, which were as follows : xst. If the jury find from the evidence that a certain W. H. H. Miller, in the year 1856, became possessed of a lot of land in Hancock, Washington County, and that at the time and before he became the owner of said lot there was a well of water standing thereon, and that while the said Miller owned the said lot he built thereon a double brick house, and that the…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
The appellant sued the appellee for damages alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the latter’s interfering with his use of a well of water in Hancock, Md. We find from the record that Dr. W. H. H. Miller was the owner of two contiguous lots of ground in that town, which he improved by erecting thereon a double brick house. In the rear there was a well of water on or near the division line between the two houses. There was a fence dividing the lots connected with the two houses, and in the fence there was a gate near the well. During Dr. Miller’s ownership of the property he…
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