Hutchins v. Lavery

This action 'is brought to restrain defendants from their present use of water conducted from a spring on the George H. Williamson farm through pipes and pump logs.

The Muzzy spring is the principal'source of a brook which flowed through the George H. Williamson farm and through the lands of the plaintiffs. On the George H. Williamson *519farm was the “ Chapman spring,” which discharged its waters into the brook running from the Muzzy spring. In or about 1812 a wooden curbing was placed in the Chapman spring, and the waters of this spring were used in part through two hydraulic rams to supply…