Watkins v. Pepperton Cotton Mills

The first five headnotes do not require elaboration.

Movant specifies as error and ground for a new trial the following charge of the court: “I charge you, on the subject of prescriptive easement, that if you believe from the preponderance of evidence in the case that the defendant located and constructed this sewer complained of, with the knowledge and consent of Joel B. Watkins, owner of the land, and that he was a stockholder, director, and officer of the defendant company at the time, and that this sewer has emptied its contents into the stream flowing into the waters of the pond…