Coulter

An action for the specific performance of a contract or in lieu thereof for damages.

On August 4, 1905, the plaintiffs W. 1A. and Harriet A. Coulter were the owners of lots 11, 12, 13 and 14 in block 10 in the town of Sausalito. They continued in such ownership until May 10, 1923, when they conveyed the same to plaintiff James Valentine Coulter. Said block is bounded by Valley, Third and Fourth Streets, and on the date first mentioned the Sausalito Bay Water Company, a corporation, owned a portion of block 6, which was directly across Third Street from the Coulter property, and, among other parcels, lot F in block 21, and lot 60 in block 20, all as delineated upon the map of the town. This corporation was then operating a waterworks, which supplied a portion of the town with water. Upon lot F was a spring called the Yacht Club spring, from which the water was piped across an avenue known as Lower Crescent Avenue to a tank on said lot 60. From this tank ran a pipe to Main Street, where it entered one of the mains of the Water Company. The entire waterworks of this company was, with two exceptions, supplied by springs on the various lots mentioned and owned by it. These exceptions…