Clifton v. Watuppa Reservoir Co.

The defendant "is a corporation organized under a special charter granted in 1826, by c. 31 of the acts of that year, for the purpose of establishing a reservoir of water in the Watuppa ponds for the benefit of the manufacturing establishments on the Fall River; and it had a special authority to make reserves of water by erecting a dam across the outlet of the Watuppa ponds two feet higher than the dam already erected by the Troy Cotton and Woollen Manufactory, and to draw off said reserved water in such quantities, at such times, and in such manner as it should deem best for all concerned;…