Meyer v. Somerville Water Co.

Backes, Y. C.

The defendant Somerville Water Company is supplying water to Baritan and Somerville, and to residents along certain roads leading from these towns. The water is obtained from the Baritan river, at Baritan, of which the complainants are lower riparian owners. The average flow of the river during nine months of the year is about two hundred and fifty million gallons per day, and the low-water flow is sixty-one million gallons. At a point about three miles above the defendant’s works the river is dammed and the water diverted into the canal of the Baritan Water Power Company, which…