Wisconsin Supreme Court April 30, 1897 (Smith v. Youmans)

Pinney, J.

It clearly appears that H. A. Youmans, the lessor of the defendant Howitt, and ancestor through whom the other defendants derived their rights to the mill power and water rights and privileges in question, acquired a right by prescription, or an easement, to maintain the waters of *109Lake Beulah at the level to which they were finally raised, and at which they had been maintained for