Hamor v. Bar Harbor Water Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON REPORT. An action of the case for diverting' one-half the water running in Duck brook in Eden from the plaintiffs’ mill situated near the mouth of that brook. At the trial the only question submitted to the jury was the assessment of damages, and they returned a verdict for $347.70. The case was then reported to the law court with so much of the evidence introduced by the defendant as tended to justify the diversion.
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ON REPORT. An action of the case for diverting' one-half the water running in Duck brook in Eden from the plaintiffs’ mill situated near the mouth of that brook. At the trial the only question submitted to the jury was the assessment of damages, and they returned a verdict for $347.70. The case was then reported to the law court with so much of the evidence introduced by the defendant as tended to justify the diversion. The following is the notice and plan referred to in the opinion. The notice was published in a public newspaper, published in the county, as required by the act of the…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The defendant corporation by special act of the legislature approved February 10, 1874, c. 449, was authorized to take, detain and use the water of Eagle Lake, and Duck Brook, or either of them, for the purpose of conveying to, and supplying the village and vicinity of Bar Harbor with pure water; and to erect and maintain dams and reservoirs, and lay and *131maintain pipes and acqueducts necessary for the proper accumulating, conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing off water, and forming proper reservoirs thereof. By this act the-corporation is held liable to pay all damages that may…
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