City of Portsmouth v. Weiss

This was an action against the city of Portsmouth to recover damages for flooding the lands of the plaintiff and destroying a crop of bulbs growing thereon. The flooding took place in July, 1922, and this action was not brought until July, 1924. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $7,300.

The city of Portsmouth owns and controls a canal or *99ditch eleven miles long and originally twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet deep. The flow of the canal was towards the north, and the waters draining from the swamp into it would normally flow in a northern direction and empty into Deep…