Opinion ID: 1743379
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Heading: did dethlefs and brandenburg acquire an easement by grant?

Text: Dethlefs argues there was an easement by grant from reservations made in deeds to predecessors in title to Beau Maison. Dethlefs asserts that water mains in the July, 1946, warranty deed refers to the underground pipe. As authority, she refers to several dictionaries which define water main as a pipe or conduit for conveying water, as from a reservoir. Webster's. We do not construe water main to be a written easement for the drainage culvert, however. The chancellor disagreed with this interpretation, and it cannot be said that he was manifestly wrong. Water main generally refers to potable water being piped in from some source. The water in a water main is generally under pressure in contrast to water in a sewer main or drainage easement. See National Automobile Insurance Co. v. Industrial Accident Comm., 21 Cal. App.2d 156, 68 P.2d 748, 749 (1937).