Case Name: Arthur Strough and Others, Comprising the Mayor and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canastota, New York, and Carl Weimer and Others, Constituting the Water Commissioners of the Village of Canastota, New York, Appellants, v. Frank Conley and Others, as Successors in Title of Edwin Bull and Smith Cady of the Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York, and Others, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-07-02
Citations: 251 A.D. 487
Docket Number: 
Parties: Arthur Strough and Others, Comprising the Mayor and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canastota, New York, and Carl Weimer and Others, Constituting the Water Commissioners of the Village of Canastota, New York, Appellants, v. Frank Conley and Others, as Successors in Title of Edwin Bull and Smith Cady of the Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York, and Others, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 251
Pages: 487–491

Head Matter:
Arthur Strough and Others, Comprising the Mayor and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canastota, New York, and Carl Weimer and Others, Constituting the Water Commissioners of the Village of Canastota, New York, Appellants, v. Frank Conley and Others, as Successors in Title of Edwin Bull and Smith Cady of the Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York, and Others, Respondents.
Third Department,
July 2, 1937.
George B. Russell, for the appellants.
Hopkins & Shapiro [P. Augustus Hopkins of counsel], for the respondent Conley.
Harold F. Lee [P. Augustus Hopkins of counsel], for the respondent Ryan.
Merchant B. Hall, for the respondents R. D. Button and others.
William E. Lounsbury, for the Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Mass.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The village of Canastota purchased from Romain Button certain lands upon which springs were located, a site for a reservoir or spring house, and the right to lay and maintain water conductors to the Canastota creek and also to the residence of Edwin Bull and others. There has been a practical location concurred in for forty years as to the land and rights conveyed. A city may not turn drainage upon lands of another. (Noonan v. City of Albany, 79 N. Y. 470; Fox v. City of New Rochelle, 240 id. 109.) The village has no greater right to flow Button's land than it would have to flow some other proprietor's premises. The fact that originally it obtained its title from Button's predecessor does not change the rule. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Hill, P. J., Rhodes, Crapser and Heffernan, JJ., concur; Bliss, J., dissents, with an opinion.