Lewisburg Tennessee v. Emerson

DeWITT, J.,

This is a controversy over the use of a road over the lands of defendants, Mrs. Lula Emerson and her daughter, Mrs. Adams. The bill was filed on September 15, 1924 by the municipal corporation styled Lewisburg, Tennessee; the purpose of the suit being to compel the defendants to unlock gates on the road leading from a public road through their premises to the property of complainant, on which are located a reservoir and a filtration plant as part of its waterworks system, 'and also to establish by decree an easement in favor of Lewisburg, upon three grounds, first, that the road…