Commonwealth Water Co. v. Brunner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Commonwealth Water Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 3d day of November, 1915, dismissing the complaint upon the merits after a trial at Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Mills, J.:
This action was brought by the plaintiff, a duly incorporated domestic water company supplying the villages of Central Valley and Highland Mills, in Orange county, with water from Cromwell lake, to enjoin the defendants from doing certain acts, viz., fishing, boating, bathing, cutting ice, running motor boats, watering cattle, in and upon the waters of said lake, and from doing anything else thereon or therein which may interfere with the rights of the plaintiff in said waters.
Cromwell lake is a small inland fresh water pond of about *155sixty-four acres in area, being about 1,000 feet…
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