Hovila v. Bartek

This is an appeal from a judgment wherein plaintiffs were decreed to be the owners of a certain pipeline, which is part of a domestic water supply system, and were given a prescriptive right to maintain the portion of the pipeline which runs through land owned by defendants.

In substance, the facts found by the trial court are as follows: The parties hereto are adjoining property owners. The south portion of respondents’ (the Hovilas) land, hereinafter referred to as tract A, abuts land owned by appellants (the Barteks and the Petersons), hereinafter referred to as tract B. In 1909, A. H.…