Black v. State

—- Judgment affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: The record contains sufficient proof to permit the trial court to find that the flood damage to claimants’ property on the shore of Oneida Lake resulted from inadequate flood control facilities then maintained by the State of New York on the Oneida River at or near its dam at Caughdenoy. We reject, because of failure of proof, defendant’s contentions that the high water which damaged claimants’ properties would have been present with the same result if the State had *834never erected its dam at Caughdenoy, and that the State of New York has acquired…