Court Opinion

ID: 9581469
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:15:14.930157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:58.779812
License: Public Domain

Mobley, Justice,
dissenting. It is my opinion that the principle, “One who grants a thing is deemed also to grant that, within his ownership, without which the grant itself would be of no effect,” from Muscogee Mfg. Co. v. Eagle & Phenix Mills, 126 Ga. 210 (8), supra, relied upon by the majority, is not applicable to the facts of this case. It appears from the evidence that at the time the covenant was granted the water was “toted” in buckets from the spring by both the grantor and the grantee, and that the assignees of the grantee have continued to use the water by this method. To fail to allow the plaintiff to place a pipe over the defendant’s land would not, therefore, deny him “that . . . without which the grant itself would be of no effect.”
Further language in Headnote 8 of Muscogee Mfg. Co. v. Eagle & Phenix Mills, supra, is applicable in the present case, as follows: “But this rule applies only to such things as are incident to the grant and directly necessary to the enjoyment of the thing granted.” Since the covenant could be exercised without the placing of a pipe over the defendant’s property, it is my view that it was error to grant an injunction enjoining the defendant from interfering with the installation of a pipe by the plaintiff.