Pleasant Valley & Lake Canal Co. v. Maxwell

Ray V. Maxwell and his wife Ethie P. Maxwell, as plaintiffs below, brought this action against the defendant the Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal Company, a corporation, for a decree quieting* their title to a certain water right of which they claimed ownership. The defendant company’s answer denied such alleged ownership by the plaintiffs, and in two separate affirmative defenses therein alleged that the claim of ownership by the plaintiffs of the water right in question was without merit, and that such water right belongs to the defendant, either in its corporate capacity, or as trustee for…