Dudley v. Beckey

Memorandum Opinion

Batchelder, J.

The defendants appeal from a ruling of the Superior Court (Nadeau, J.), approving the report of a Master (Charles T. Gallagher, Esq.) recommending the granting of the plaintiffs’ petition for mandatory injunctive relief and denying the defendants’ cross-petition. On appeal, the defendants, Calvin and Margaret Beckey, claim that there was insufficient evidence to support the master’s findings and that the plaintiffs, Mark and Kim Dudley, did unreasonably divert surface water upon their property in a manner violative of the common law doctrine governing the…