DECEDENTS' ESTATES-LEGACIES CHARITIES. W. H. L. 153, 316, 525 RAILROAD LEASES. A. B. Weimer RIGHTS OF VENDOR AND VENDEE TO A POLICY OF INSURANCE ON THE PROPERTY SOLD. Geo. Richards COMMERCIAL LAW, 651, 662, 672, 751, 758, 806, 824, 850, 860, 871. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 656, 665, 669, 673, 744, 751, 757, 809, 815, 854, CONTRACTS, 656, 667, 674, 742, 743, 745, 752, 810, 812, 819, 823, 824, 856, PRACTICE, 650, 651, 652, 653, 660, 662, 665, 671, 745, 753, 806, 809, 812, 814, 815, 849, 851, 853, 855, 863, 864, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 878. THE AMERICAN LAW REGISTER AND REVIEW. JANUARY, 1894. THE NATURAL USE OF LAND. BY JOHN MARSHALL GEST. PART I. OVER seven years have passed since the Supreme Court, in Sanderson v. The Pennsylvania Coal Company,' reversed their previous decisions in the same case.' The final judgment of the court has been considered in several more recent cases and at this lapse of time the principles of the decision may be impartially and critically considered. The facts are well known. To rehearse them briefly we find that the plaintiff, Sanderson, purchased in 1868 a tract of land within the limits of the city of Scranton through which flowed "Meadow Brook," a seven-feet wide stream of excellent water. The plaintiff was in part induced to purchase his land on account of this stream, the condition of which he investigated with some care. He built a handsome residence near by; dammed the stream to make ponds for ice and fish, and used the water in his 1 113 Pa. St., 126 (1886). '86 Pa. St., 401; 94 Pa. St., 302; 102 Pa. St., 370. |
