Carrera v. State

Appeal by the claimant from so much of a judgment of the Court of Claims as dismissed, for failure of proof, claimant’s claim for property damage allegedly caused by the State’s installation of drainage facilities in connection with the widening of the Sunrise Highway in Bellmore, Nassau County, which redirected water into a small stream abutting claimant’s property increasing the stream flow to such an extent that it undermined a retaining wall causing claimant’s building to collapse on September 12, 1960, during the height of “Hurricane Donna”. Concededly, claimant alleged facts which, if…