Denton v. Leddell

The Chancellor.

The complainant, Mrs. Denton, owns a farm through which a stream runs upon the adjoining lands of the defendant, William Leddell, where it is used to drive a mill. The complaint is that the defendant maintains his dam, and flows back water on the complainant’s lands higher than he is entitled to do. The object of the suit is to compel him to lower both the clam and the water, and to fix and settle the height to which the water may be raised.

The complainant and the defendant both derive title to their respective lands from the will of their father, John W. Leddell, who died…