Bryant v. Pottsville Water Co.

Citations

• 190 Pa. 366
• 42 A. 1117
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 1033

Syllabus

<p>Waters — Adverse use — Eminent domain — Water company.</p> <p>In a proceeding by a water company to condemn land, the owner of the land may prove that for more than twenty-one years he had diverted and sold to a railroad company more water from a stream on the land than he was entitled to take as riparian owner, and for purposes for which a riparian owner could not take, and also, that there was no other stream.than this from which certain neighboring municipalities could be supplied with water for domestic purposes.</p>