Graham v. Safe Harbor Water Power Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

The question here is whether the right acquired to flood another’s land can be lost by its nonexercise for twenty-one years. In 1902, Hiram S. Young owned a tract of land bounded on the east by the Susquehanna River. At that time there was a wharf along the river used by Young in connection with a ferry operated by him, and another part of the eastern portion of his property was used as a coal yard. On the western part of his property along the tow path was his residence and outbuildings. On June 16, 1902, Young and his wife, by an instrument bearing that date and…