Cook v. Lane
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on the pleadings, master’s report, and defendant’s exceptions thereto, at the September Term, 1911, Rutland County, Taylor, Chancellor. Exceptions overruled, and decree for the orator. The defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The controversy relates to the orator’s claim of ownership in a spring located. on land of E. S. Burton, formerly owned by J. C. Burton. The record title introduced by the orator consists of two deeds; one from Leverett A. Ives to Jesse Sawyer, dated March 24, 1854; the other from Jesse Sawyer and wife to the orator, dated April 20, 1880; both of which convey the house and lot occupied successively by Sawyer and the orator. The first deed makes no mention of a water right, but the second contains the following: “Including one-half interest in the aqueduct of water now running between said…
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