West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. v. Peck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company of Delaware, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Saratoga on the 6th day of September, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
Plaintiff is the owner of a dam seven hundred and ninety-six feet long across the Hudson river at Mechanieville. It also owns the land on both sides of the river at the termini of the dam. As originally constructed in the year 1882 the dam was sixteen feet high. In the year 1903 the Barge Canal Act was passed being chapter 147 of the Laws of that year which canalized (§3) the river from Waterford to Fort Edward. Notwithstanding that legislation the plaintiff in 1904 increased the height of its dam three feet. Subsequently the State in the construction of the Barge canal built…
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