Mayor of Baltimore v. Day

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore acquired by condemnation and purchase the right to use, as part of its water supply, the water of the Gunpowder River, above Loch Raven, in Baltimore County, at which point a large dam and lake were constructed. The plaintiff is a riparian proprietor on the Gunpowder River below the dam. He filed a bill against the Mayor and City Council alleging in in substance as follows: That the defendant had acquired from a large number of riparian owners “ the right to use so much of the water of said stream as would flow through a conduit of the capacity of flow…