Messinger v. Woodcock

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff, Mary Messinger, against the defendant, Ernest Woodcock, on April 28,1936, for a decree declaring that the plaintiff was entitled to the use of all the water “arising from Messinger springs and flowing in Mes- singer creek, down to and” upon the farm land owned by the plaintiff, and that the defendant be forever restrained from interfering in any manner whatever with the free flow of the said water. Later, May 9,193.6, an amended complaint was filed, in which the same relief was asked.

The defendant in his answer prayed that the plaintiff be restrained…