Low v. State

Abbot Augustus Low (hereafter called Low, Sr.) owned a considerable tract of land in St. Lawrence and Hamilton Counties. In 1903 he built a dam across the Bog Biver in St. Lawrence County, near Hitchin’s Pond, and created a reservoir of some 3,000 acres. The extreme westerly end of the reservoir flooded some land in Hamilton County, about thirty acres the testimony indicates, which he did not own. The precise location of those thirty acres is not revealed by the proof in the record before us, but it is not disputed that they lay in the triangle where the converging lines of township 38, *311Totten…