Wells v. Marcus

CROCKETT, Justice.

This suit arose from a controversy between the parties over the use of culinary water from a common source known as Corbett Creek in Davis County. It appears that in about 1950 the plaintiff’s pater familias, John Hill (now deceased), and the defendant, William Marcus, worked together in constructing a pipeline to convey the water from Corbett Creek in a common pipe to a point of division, and thence in separate pipes to their respective residences. Plaintiff contends that this was a project of John Hill and that Mr. Marcus was simply his employee; whereas, defendants say…