Frisbie v. Cowen
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action to recover damages for an alleged wrongful discharge of water on the plaintiffs’ land from an artificial ditch draining the defendant’s railroad tracks. The facts are sufficiently stated' in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
This action was brought by the appellants, Annie T. Frisbie and William B. Frisbie, against the appellees, John K. Cowen and Oscar G. Murray, as receivers of the Baltimore- and Ohio Railroad Company, to recover damages for an alleged injury to property occasioned by the wrongful discharge of water from an artificial ditch draining the tracks- and roadway of the railroad company.
It is shown, both by allegation and proof, that the appellants owned a piece or lot of ground contiguous to the line-of the railroad, and several feet lower than the tracks, and upon which lot there is a house. Many…
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- Curtis v. Eastern RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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