Strough v. Conley

In the year 1886, in connection with the establishment of a municipally-owned water supply for the village of Canastota, the plaintiff acquired certain springs by conveyance from one Romain D. Button. The springs are located on what was known as the spring lot, and all flowed in a westerly or northwesterly direction to a point where they united to form a stream which flowed westerly through the premises of Bull, Cady and Smith, predecessors in title of the defendants Conley and Ryan, and emptied into Canaseraga creek. Whether one of said streams flowing from such springs originally flowed…