McCord v. the Big Brothers Movement, Inc.

Complainants own land in Stillwater township through which runs a stream known as Paulins kill. On their lands is a grist mill operated since 1844 by complainants and their predecessors in title with water power supplied by the stream. The mill is not located directly on the kill and water is diverted therefrom by a series of five or six crude dams in the stream constructed of loosely piled rock, into a mill pond and thence to the mill through a race and afterward returned to the kill below the mill.

Defendant owns land on the same stream a short distance above complainants' mill. On its land,…