McWhorter v. City of Clarksburg

Plaintiff, Nathan G. McWhorter, obtained a verdict and judgment of $450.00 against the defendant, City of Clarksburg, for injury to his land (bordering West Fork River in Harrison County) from flowage caused by a concrete storage dam which it maintains across the river at West Milford, two and one-half miles below said land. This dam was constructed by the city in 1922 to displace a stone and wooden mill dam built about 1819 to operate a gristmill erected at the time. A roller process flouring mill, sawmill, and planing mill, added in later years, was operated by the same water power. This…