Fraser v. Nerney
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on the pleadings and findings of fact by the chancellor, at the September Term, 1914, Washington County, Butter, Chancellor. Decree for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is a controversy between next-door neighbors over the right of one to take water from a spring on the land of the other. The plaintiff asserts the right, and the defendants own the spring.
If the case is to be disposed of on the sufficiency of the allegations of the bill, as the' defendants insist, it might be difficult to sustain the decree (which was for the plaintiff) in all respects for it might trouble one to point out in the bill allegations sufficient to sustain a prescriptive right in' the spring. But *259however this may be, it is apparent from the record that the questions between…
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