McNeal v. Assiscunk Creek Meadow Co.

Bird, Y. C.

The Assiscunk creek is a small stream rising northeast of the city of Burlington, and flowing into the Delaware. The country *205is so low and level as to admit the tides at least four miles along its course, which ordinarily rises four to five feet, and overflows the banks of the creek, spreading from the right to the left from a few feet to several hundred, covering about two hundred acres. All the lands thus subject to tide-waters are rendered so wet, marshy and sour as to be worthless for agricultural, and nearly so for grazing purposes. To some land-owners the loss is quite…