Carpenter v. Gold

Citations

• 88 Va. 551
• 14 S.E. 329
• 1892 Va. LEXIS 6

Syllabus

<p>1. Water-Coubse.— Riparian owners — Adfilum aqux. — Every person through or x>ast whose land a natural water-course runs, has a right inseparably annexed to the soil and xiassing with it, to use it reasonably, and no proprietor above or below has a right to obstruct it; and every riparian owner owns to the middle of a non-navigable stream.</p> <p>2. Diversion of Water-Coilrse — Relief.—Where the boundary between complainant’s and defendant’s tracts was a stream which suxrplied both with water, and latter diverted the water by means of a ditch, depriving former of access to it, and thereby greatly and irreparably injuring 1dm;</p> <p>Held :</p> <p>He is entitled to equitable relief.</p>