Goodwin v. Texas Co.

Actions on the case for flooding the plaintiffs’ lands and obstructing a natural water course by which they were drained. In the Court below, where the cases were tried together, the jury returned verdicts for the plaintiffs and the defendant filed general motions for new trials.

The Texas Company, in 1930, built a bulkhead out on the flats in front of its lands at South Portland, Maine, made nearly ten acres of new land by filling in shore with dredgings pumped from the bottom of the ocean, and inside the fill constructed a gravel dam designed to hold in the mud and water it had collected.…