Line v. Miller

The parties to this suit own adjoining lots on Maryland Avenue in Knoxville. The bill was filed by Mrs. Line to enjoin defendant from interfering with a sewer line running from a residence on her lot across defendant’s lots and thence to a city sewer on Murphy Street.

Noting that complainant’s bill is not predicated on adverse use of the line but upon the claim that it is an appurtenance to complainant’s title, the Chancellor dismissed the bill. Complainant appealed and has renewed here her insistence that the right to continue using the line impliedly passed to her as an appurtenance under…