Potter v. Howe

This is a bill in equity, filed November 3, 1881, in which the plaintiff, the owner of land bounding on a great pond, seeks to have the defendant enjoined against raising the waters of the pond above the natural high-water mark, and from drawing them off below the natural low-water mark of the pond.

The facts, so far as they are material to the decision, are these: The plaintiff owns a farm bounded about one hundred rods on a great pond, which has an area of about one hundred acres. The defendants own a strip of land about four rods wide on the pond at the only outlet of it, upon which they…