The owner of a mill on the banks of a river cannot maintain an action against a land-owner, who sinks a deep well on his own land and by pumps and steam engine diverts the under-ground water which would otherwise have percolated the soil and flowed into the river by which, for more than sixty years, the mill was worked.
Citations:
[1857] EngR 524, (1857) 2 H and N 168, (1857) 157 ER 71
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Chasemore v Richards HL 27-Jul-1859
The House was asked whether an owner of land had a right to sink a well upon his own premises, and thereby abstract the subterranean water percolating through his own soil, which would otherwise, by the natural force of gravity, have found its way . .
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Land
Updated: 07 September 2022; Ref: scu.290270