Hartman v. Pennsylvania Water & Power Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

Plaintiff filed her bill for an injunction against the defendant, averring that she was the owner of certain lands and flowage rights on Pequea Creek, in Lancaster County, by a deed from Cora M. Bixler, that since the year 1911 defendant had repeatedly flooded these lands by the use of flashboards on a dam maintained by it across the Susquehanna River, of which the creek is a tributary, and that it had threatened to do so again, and would do so unless restrained by the court. Defendant, in its answer, denied that plaintiff was the owner of said lands and flowage…