Miller v. Street

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this dispute between adjacent landowners in Carter County, the chancellor determined the Streets had a right-of-way to a spring and right to use water for domestic purposes from the spring located on Millers’ land.

The parties derived their respective titles from a common grantor in the 1930’s. This description appears in the Streets’ prior deeds:

The second party [Street] is to have a right of way 12 feet wide to the creek for the use of water for stock. All so [sic] the second party is to have the use of spring and spring house and a right of way to said spring.

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