Legal Opinion
Langdon v. Town of Webster
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 25, 1997PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted the motions of the Town of Webster and Charles Costich, P.E., L.S., P. C., and the cross motion of Visca Builders, Inc., for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. It is well established that a landowner is not liable for damages to abutting property for the flow of surface water resulting from improvements to his or her land so long as "the improvements are made in good faith to fit the property to some rational use to which it is adapted, and * * * the water is not drained into the other property by…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Kossoff v. Rathgeb-Walsh, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1958
- Goldstein v. County of MonroeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- Cottrell v. HermonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Osgood v. Bucking-ReddyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
- Marino v. Dwyer-Berry Construction Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
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- Selter v. MCM Distributors, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Kane v. ShephardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
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