Rockland Light & Power Co. v. City of New York

The plaintiff is the owner of 4,382 acres of land “ together with certain flowage rights and easements which are available for proposed hydro-electric developments ” and other lands, upon which a hydro-electric development is located. These lands extend for more than eleven miles on the west and more than eleven and a half miles on the east side of the Never sink river which in tins distance has a fall of approximately four hundred feet. Plaintiff may not develop the project in accordance with its plans because of a decree of the United States Supreme Court concerning the release of water by…