Legal Opinion
Compson v. Walters
New York Supreme Court
Decided July 21, 1967Published
1Opinion of the CourtG. Robert Wither, J.
It appears that plaintiffs’ predecessors in title owned a 250-acre farm (known as the Shekell farm) located in the Town of Hopewell, Ontario Bounty, north of a farm (known as the Buchan farm) purchased prior to the year 1900 by the defendant Village of Clifton Springs, and that upon the latter farm were situated several springs which constituted the source and headwaters of a stream of water which flowed northerly through the ¡Shekell farm and other adjoining farms. The village acquired the Buchan farm for the purpose of creating a water system for its residents, and it impounded most of the…
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