Roskin Bros. v. State

—Appeal from a judgment entered on a decision rendered after trial in the Court of Claims. The State built a highway passing over a culvert carrying a natural stream. To prevent the culvert being blocked by debris coming from upstream and thus the flooding of land on the upstream side of the road, the State installed a screen. On the downstream side of the road on private land the owner of the land built a catehbasin to drop the level of the stream to a lower point to permit covering over and development of the private land. The State took away the screen from the mouth of the culvert; and it…