McWhorter v. City of Clarksburg

Litz, President:

Plaintiff, Nathan G-. McWhorter, obtained a verdict and judgment of $450.00 against the defendant, City of Clarks-burg, for injury to his land (bordering West Fork River in Harrison County) from flowage caused by a concrete storage *10dam wbicb it maintains across tbe river at West Milford, two and one-balf miles below said land. This dam was constructed by the city in 1922 to displace a stone and wooden mill dam built about 1819 to operate a gristmill erected at the time. A roller process flouring' mill, sawmill, and planing mill, added in later years, was operated by the same…