Clark v. Glidden
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill IN Chancery. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, September Term, 1886, Powers, Chancellor. Decree for the oratrix; and that the injunction be continued in force during the existence of the aqueduct. The case appears in the opinion of the court.
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Bill IN Chancery. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, September Term, 1886, Powers, Chancellor. Decree for the oratrix; and that the injunction be continued in force during the existence of the aqueduct. The case appears in the opinion of the court. The oratrix claims that although she has not made out her case as claimed, still she has shown enough to amount to a parol license to lay the aqueduct and hike the water ; and that having laid the aqueduct at large expense, the license is irrevocable, and that she is entitled to an injunction prohibiting the defendants from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tyler, J.
The material facts reported by the master are, that the oratrix and defendant owned adjoining farms in Cabot; that the oratrix was about to lay an aqueduct from a small and insufficient spring on her farm to her farm buildings, when she had a conversation with the defendant, in which he told her there was a good chance for her to take water from a large spring on his farm, about the same distance from the oratrix’s buildings as her own spring. The defendant was making no use of the water and told the oratrix that it was not benefiting, him and…
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