Skillen v. Water-Works Co.

This was an action by appellant against appellee, based upon a contract made with Henry R. Selden and others, trustees of the Indiana Central Canal Company, on the 20th of March, 1860, to recover damages for an alleged breach of said contract.

It granted, demised, and leased to the appellant, for the term of twenty years from- the 1st day of August, 1861, upon the conditions contained therein, “ sufficient water from the Indiana Central Canal, in the city of Indianapolis, to furnish motive power for two run of millstones, grinding at the rate of ten bushels per hour each of good, dry white…