Bristor v. Cheatham

PHELPS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court dismissing plaintiffs’ cause of action in which plaintiffs sought to restrain defendants from abstracting and di*231verting or using any waters which plaintiffs were pumping from domestic wells on their respective properties and for damages sustained.

The complaint alleges that plaintiffs have been the owners of the properties upon which they reside for many years and have been in possession thereof and expended large sums of money improving their land by building homes thereon, boring wells for domestic purposes, and various…