HENDERSONVILLE & c. CO. v. BLUE RIDGE RY.

No. 497.

243 U.S. 563 (1917)

HENDERSONVILLE LIGHT & POWER COMPANY ET AL. v. BLUE RIDGE INTERURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 23, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Michael Schenck, with whom Mr. C.P. Sanders, Mr. J.C. Martin, Mr. Thomas S. Rollins and Mr. George H. Wright were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error:

Mr. Charles W. Tillett, with whom Mr. Horace L. Bomar, Mr. William A. Smith, Mr. James E. Shipman and Mr. Thomas C. Guthrie were on the briefs, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a special proceeding to condemn the water rights incident to land belonging to the plaintiffs in error upon a bow of Green River. It has resulted in a judgment of condemnation subject to the payment of $10,000. The petitioner, the defendant in error, owns land on the side of the stream opposite to that of the plaintiffs in error, the respondents, and on both sides...

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