Rothrauff Et Ux. v. Sinking Spr. W. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

Plaintiffs are the owners of a farm in Berks County upon which, until the event hereinafter mentioned, there was a deep-seated spring producing a substantial quantity of water. Defendant, a corporation engaged in the business of furnishing water to the public, entered into a written agreement with plaintiffs on January 9, 1935, by which it was to purchase the effluent of this spring for a period of ten years for the price of two and a half cents per thousand gallons, the flow to be metered in such manner that wastage or overflow from its reservoir would not be…