Smitty Two wrote:
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Then get it in writing (with a lawyer doing the writing) ...

Good lord. Two people can't share a well without all that b.s.? If I had
a neighbor that unreasonable, I'd either shoot him or move. There's got
to be a solution that doesn't cost $10,000 to make sure that the guy
doesn't cheat you out of 75 cents worth of water or power.

For the present, probably.

But...example that happened just up the road a few years ago.

Old farmstead sold when husband died. The person who bought the place
did so for his mother -- at one point a number of years later they
subdivided a section off w/ the metal shed and a couple of acres since
she had no need for anything other than the house/yard, etc.

Turns out the well was on that sublet piece and the SOB who bought it
laid out the dividing line specifically w/ that piece of information in
mind. The woman and her son didn't think of it and within a month of
the guy taking possession they were out of water one morning when he cut
the line and hooked himself up to "their" well.

W/O a legal arrangement, whoever doesn't have the well in this situation
is at a very serious potential disadvantage down the road.

I agree that this needs to be resolved in an amicable fashion, but it
definitely needs a firm contractual basis and that needs to be
incorporated into the deed(s).

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