Chaffin v. . Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Julia Chaffin and others against the Fries Manufacturing and Power Company, heard by Judge IF. B. Allen and a jury, at October Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Davie County. From a judgment for the defendant the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The plaintiffs are the owners of a farm on the west bank of the Yadkin river. They bring this action to recover damages, both permanent and annual, for injury to the land alleged to have been caused by the erection and maintenance of a dam by the defendant across the river and below their tract of land. They allege that the dam raised the water in front of their land about six feet, and there was evidence on the part of the defendant that it had been raised two feet and nine inches, but that the banks of the river at that place were fourteen feet high.
The plaintiffs claimed that by this rise…
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