Peterson v. Wood

This is a controversy concerning the waters of a certain spring in Davis county, Utah. The spring is situated near the lower end of a small canyon sloping from the east towards the west. The canyon is about three miles long, and from a mile to a mile and a half in width at the widest part.

The defendants are the owners of the land from which the spring emerges to the surface, and the plaintiff is the owner of adjacent land on the north and west.

The spring in question has been in use, for beneficial purposes, by the defendants and their predecessors in interest ever since prior to the year…