Riddle v. Delaware County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 11, Jan T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., Jan. T., 1892, No. 9, on verdict for plaintiffs, Lydia C. Riddle and Samuel D. Riddle, executors, etc., of Samuel Riddle, deceased. Trespass for injury to water power. Before Hemphill, J. The case was originally brought in C. P. Delaware county, Dec. T., 1889, No. 88. On change of venue, the case was transferred to Chester county.
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Appeal, No. 11, Jan T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., Jan. T., 1892, No. 9, on verdict for plaintiffs, Lydia C. Riddle and Samuel D. Riddle, executors, etc., of Samuel Riddle, deceased. Trespass for injury to water power. Before Hemphill, J. The case was originally brought in C. P. Delaware county, Dec. T., 1889, No. 88. On change of venue, the case was transferred to Chester county. At the trial, it appeared that in 1884 the county commissioners of Delaware county rebuilt a bridge over Chester creek at a point in close proximity to the mills belonging to the estate…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Stebbett,
Two suits were brought against the county defendant to recover damages for injury done to a certain mill property, formerly owned by Samuel Riddle, and, after his decease, by his two sons Samuel and Leander. Said injury is alleged to have been caused by the erection of a county bridge over Chester *651creek, whereby the channel of that stream was obstructed and the waters thereof so backed up, during freshets, that the mills, and surrounding lands appurtenant thereto, were flooded and said mill property greatly damaged and depreciated in value. The first of…
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