Becker v. McGraw

English, Judge:

This is a suit in equity brought in the circuit court of Jefferson County by Charles and Louis Becker against James C. *540McGraw, in which, the plaintiffs claim to be the owners of eight hundred and thirty-three acres of land located on the Bine Ridge mountain near Harpers Ferry, on which tract there is a valua-hie spring of soft water. They allege that, without any authority from them the defendant McGraw has taken possession of said spring, and without any right thereto, is draining the water from it and appropriating the same to his own use; that the spring constitutes the…