Trenz v. Town of Norwell

This appeal concerns the flow of storm water through four town culverts onto the property of the plaintiffs, James and Christine Trenz. Claiming that significant amounts of water discharge onto their land causing damage,3 the plaintiffs *272brought this action against the town and a neighbor, Barbara Meacham. The latter, the plaintiffs allege, among other things, installed a pipe that increases the flow of water into one of the town’s culverts, the so-called “Meacham culvert.” After a jury-waived trial, a judge in the Superior Court dismissed the plaintiffs’ action, ruling that neither defendant…