Powers v. Bellows Falls Hydro-Electric Corp.

The defendant owns and operates a dam constructed in 1927 and 1928 across the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls, Vermont, and North Walpole, New Hampshire, and is engaged in the manufacture and sale of electric current. The plaintiffs own and possess a farm in this state, abutting on the river, at some distance down stream from the dam. They seek to recover for damages alleged to have been caused to their farm and personal property thereon by the operation of such dam, its fiash-boards and gates, so as to cause fluctuations in the flow of water past their farm, and so that the stored…