McDowell v. Avon-by-the-Sea Land & Improvement Co.

Emery, V. G.

The complainants are the lessees and the owners of a summer hotel at Avon-by-the-Sea, and the object of the bill is to restrain the defendant, a water company, from cutting off the water-supply to- the hotel. Defendant claims the right to cut off the water because of the failure of a previous owner of the property (the grantor of the owners named in the bill) to pay the arrears *110of water rent clue for water furnished during the years 1897, 1899 and 1900. Injunction pending suit was ordered, the lessees paying the current water rent, and also entering into bond to pay the arrears…