Town of Purcellville v. Potts

Clarence H. Potts and Sarah E. Potts, hereinafter called the plaintiffs, filed their bill in the court below against the town of Purcellville, alleging that they were the owners of a tract of some 300 acres of land situate in Loudoun county, Virginia, through which ran, in a well-defined channel, a stream, popularly known as “Laurel Branch,” having its origin in springs on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of their property; that the town of Purcellville had constructed dams across the two tributaries of the stream above their property; that it was thereby impounding a…