Lefrois v. Monroe County
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Monroe county. Action by Joseph Lefrois against the county of Monroe. From an order granting plaintiff’s motion to set aside a verdict on the ground that the damages awarded were inadequate, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD. J.
The respondent (to whom we shall refer as the plaintiff) brought an action in this court in Monroe county, and alleged in his complaint that he was the owner of about 26 acres of land in the vicinity of the city of Rochester, which he occupied as a dairy farm, and through a portion of which ran a small, natural stream, that had supplied his premises and his stock with pure water, which had become contaminated and rendered useless by filth and excrement that had been placed in the stream by the defendant. The defendant had public buildings near the plaintiff’s premises; also an open…
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