Kalonczyk v. State

Claimant’s intestate, a boy seven years of age, was drowned on June 19, 1935, between two and two-thirty o’clock in the afternoon in the Champlain canal, where it passes through the town of Waterford, and about opposite a house occupied by one O’Meara and his family, and this claim is presented by his father, as administrator, for damages as a result of his death. The O’Meara home fronts on Canal street, which street does not appear from the evidence to have been formally dedicated as a public highway, but which appears to have been used for public purposes for a period of thirty years. The…