Hall v. Meyer

This is a suit in equity in which plaintiffs seek to enjoin defendant’s interference with an alleged easement to take water from a spring on defendant’s land and to recover damages for defendant’s interference with the easement. The trial court entered a decree declaring plaintiffs the owners of an estate in fee simple in the spring and awarding damages in the amount of $451. Defendant appeals.

Plaintiffs rest their claim to the spring waters upon the following series of conveyances. Prior to 1956, Martin Peterson owned a tract of land bisected by a county road running north and south. In that…