Stribling v. Tripp

Bicknell, C. C.

The appellant brought this suit against “Tripp and Brougher and the city of North "Vernon, alleging that he was the owner of two lots in said city, in block C, ,and that said Tripp and Brougher owned three lots in the same block, on which were a woollen mill and a mill pond; that, prior to 1875, the plaintiff’s lots were dry, and were •cultivated by him as a garden, and the surplus water of the mill pond flowed away through an ancient natural watercourse to the southward of plaintiff’s lots, and thence thro ugh a culvert *167under the J., M. & I. railroad; that, in 1875, said Tripp…