Legal Opinion
Black River Regulating District v. Adirondack League Club
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 14, 1954PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDye, J.
In this appeal we deal with the enforcibility of a proposed plan to construct Panther Mountain reservoir and dam on the south branch of the Moose River, a tributary of the Black River in Herkimer County, for the purpose of regulating the flow of the Black River and its tributaries. *
The controversy turns on the applicability of the Stokes Act, so-called, which prohibits the construction of “ reservoirs for the regulation of the flow of streams or for any other purpose except for municipal water supply * * * in Hamilton or Herkimer counties on the south branch of the Moose river by any river…
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