Easton v. State

This claim is for the appropriation of four hundred and ninety-three one-thousandths acres of land for railroad grade elimination purposes and damages alleged to have been caused by the work of construction in polluting a spring located on property of the county of Delaware, but the waters of which claimants had reserved in their instrument of conveyance. Before the construction the water from the spring was clear, but afterward it was roily in rainy weather and unfit for use in claimant’s summer boarding house. The value of the land taken has been agreed upon at $200, and this is the only…