Strough v. Conley

The village of Canastota purchased from Romain Button certain lands upon which springs were located, a site for a reservoir or spring house, and the right to lay and maintain water conductors to the Canastota creek and also to the residence of Edwin Bull and others. There has been a practical location concurred in for forty years as to the land and rights conveyed. A city may not turn drainage upon lands of another. (Noonan v. City of Albany, 79 N. Y. 470; Fox v. City of New Rochelle, 240 id. 109.) The village has no greater right to flow Button’s land than it would have to flow some other…