Sebree v. Huntingdon Water Supply Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 236, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1917, No. 27, on verdict for defendant, in case of J. Emmett Sebree v. Huntingdon Water Supply Company. Before Brown, C. J., Moschzisker, Frazer, Walling, Simpson and Kephart, JJ. Affirmed. Trespass to recover damages for injury to land and crops. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. See also Sebree v. Huntingdon Water Supply Co., 72 Pa.
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Appeal, No. 236, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1917, No. 27, on verdict for defendant, in case of J. Emmett Sebree v. Huntingdon Water Supply Company. Before Brown, C. J., Moschzisker, Frazer, Walling, Simpson and Kephart, JJ. Affirmed. Trespass to recover damages for injury to land and crops. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. See also Sebree v. Huntingdon Water Supply Co., 72 Pa. Superior Ct. 553. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in refusing…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
The defendant is a duly incorporated water company, engaged in supplying water to the Borough of Hunting-don and its inhabitants. Its source of supply is a brook called Standing Stone creek; across this defendant’s *423predecessor constructed a dam in 1885, which was reconstructed ten years later on the same site. In 1912 plaintiff bought a seven-and-one-half-acre piece of land bordering on the creek, some three hundred feet above the dam, which was used for farming and gardening, but possibly had a value also for building lots. In 1917 he brought this action in…
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