Onthank v. . L.S. and M.S.R.R. Co.

In May, 1863, one Brown, whose farm adjoined that of the plaintiff, executed to the Buffalo and State Line Railroad Company a deed granting to it, and its successors and assigns forever, the right to enter upon his land "for the purpose of building and maintaining a reservoir for water, and laying down and maintaining an iron pipe or conductor to carry the water from said reservoir to the water-tanks at the Portland station, and also the right to build and maintain blind and covered ditches to conduct the water to the said reservoir; the said iron pipe is to be laid at least two feet below…