Fire District No. 1 v. Graniteville Spring Water Co.

This is a controversy between two corporations engaged in the business of merchandising water. The plaintiff supplies the village of East Barre. Its reservoir is fed by a brook made by the union of several small streams, one of which is the so-called McAulay brook, whose headwaters are on the farm of Annie McAulay, in the town of Williamstown. The defendant supplies customers in the towns of Barre and Williamstown, and elsewhere.

In 1927, Annie McAulay conveyed to the defendant all springs and water rights on said farm, except two certain springs — one known as the McAulay spring and the other…