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PERCOLATING    WATER   HAVING    NO   DEFINED   COURSE.  195

"  judges  to  this  House,i  it  is  unnecessary  for  me  to  say
"  more,  than  that  I  entirely  agree  with  them,  and  thiuk
"  that  it  can  hardly  be  regarded  as  a  satisfactory  decision
"  upon  the  point  under  consideration.  It  appears  to  me
"  that  reason  and  principle,  as  well  as  authority,  are
"  opposed  to  the  claim  of  the  plaiatiff  to  maintain  an
"  action  for  the  interception  of  the  underground  water,
"  which  would  have  ultimately  found  its  way  into  the
"  River  Wandle  ;  and  that,  therefore,  the  judgment  of  the
"  Exchequer  Chamber  ought  to  be  affirmed."

FoUowiag  this  decision,  it  has  been  held  in  Reg.  v.  Seg.  v.  Metro-
Metropolitan  Board  of  Works,^  that  a  landowner  was  not  f/^",!,"""^
entitled  to  compensation  under  the  Metropolitan  Sewers
Act  (11  (^  12  Vict.  c.  112),  for  the  abstraction  of  water
from  underground  springs,  which  rose  in  his  lands  and  fed
his  ponds,  by  a  sewer  made  under  the  provisions  of  the
Act,  in  neighbouring  lands.
