Seymour & Sage v. Lewis

The Chancellor.

In the year 1857, James Gaunt was seized in fee and possessed of two lots or parcels of land and real estate in the city of Trenton. The first consisted of an extensive and valuable paper mill, with the water privileges and appurtenances, situate on the raceway of the Trenton Water Power Company, and known as the Delaware mill. The second consisted of a lot of land on the south side of Front street, extending in the rear to Washington street, upon which were erected two brick dwellings. Upon the latter lot there was a valuable spring, which furnished a copious supply of water.…