Willard v. Stone

This is a bill perpetually to enjoin the defendant from impairing or interfering with the alleged right of the plaintiffs to take waters from springs on the defendant’s land. By warranty deed dated May 15, 1849, George Whit-comb, the defendant’s predecessor in title, granted and conveyed to William B. Willard, the plaintiffs’ predecessor in title, “the right to take & use the water from a point near or below a certain spring or springs situated on the farm on *558which I now live & about forty rods west of my buildings and about ten rods north of said Willards land and also the right, to dig the…