Springer v. Lawrence

Pitney, V. C.

The complainants, by their bill, ask the court to restrain the defendant from obstructing certain ditches on her own land, on the ground that they (the complainants) have a right of drainage through them for their adjoining land. The defendant, by her answer, admits such right as to a portion of complainants’ land, but denies it as to another portion, and alleges that the complainants have overcharged their easement by adding the drainage of such other portion, and for that reason she (the defendant) proposes to stop the ditches in question.

The lands in question are situate in…