Livermore v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The Chief Justice.

This case is before the court upon a demurrer to the plaintiffs’ declaration. The question presented for decision is, whether the defendants are lia*246ble for the consequential injury sustained by the plaintiffs’ mill-dam and sluice over the'south branch of Timber creek, in the county of Camden, by reason of the fall of a county bridge upon the dam and sluice gates per quod the dam and gates were broken down and the water let out of plaintiffs’ pond, who were thus deprived of the use of the water as motive power for their grist mill, situate below the dam aud gates. The…