McRae v. Camden & Rockland Water Co.

Herein the plaintiff recovered a verdict for $2,000 for injuries to his golf course in Rockland. The defendant filed a general motion based on the usual grounds. The question is whether the verdict is manifestly wrong.

From the evidence the jury could have found that many years ago the defendant took title to a rectangular piece of land 25 by 40 feet in the midst of property owned by its grant- or; that it built a valve house thereon over a pit dug in the ground; that in the fall of 1939 the defendant artificially col*112lected surface water in the pit to varying depths, it coming in around pipes…