Powers v. Bellows Falls Hydro-Electric Corp.

This is an appeal from an order of the Wind-ham County Court overruling petitionee’s demurrer to the petition. Exceptions were allowed the petitionee and the case comes here before final judgment under the provisions of P. L. 2072.

The petitionee is a public service corporation engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of electric energy and for the purposes of that business operates and maintains a dam across the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls, Vermont, and North Walpole, New Hampshire. The petition is brought under the provisions of an act of the Legislature of October 25,…