Legal Opinion
Woodbury v. Marblehead Water Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 5, 1888PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from maintaining its pipes in the plaintiff’s land, and from *510entering upon or using the same. The defendant justifies under the St. of 1883, c. 163. It has bought land in Swampscott, has sunk wells there, about three miles from the Marblehead boundary and has laid pipes from them in Lynn, in an' opposite direction from Marblehead, through the plaintiff’s land.
The plaintiff’s first contention is, that the defendant is not authorized to purchase water sources outside the town of Marble-head, — arguing from the name given to the defendant, from…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Milkman v. OrdwayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Connecticut River Railroad v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Winslow v. NaysonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Creely v. Bay State Brick Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Brickett v. Haverhill Aqueduct Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity v. PufferMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Case v. MinotMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- California Development Co. v. New Liverpool Salt Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1909
- Appleton v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- Old Colony Railroad v. Framingham Water Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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