Kidde Manufacturing Co. v. Town of Bloomfield

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J. Brennan, Jr., J.

The collapse of a stone wall forming the east side of Toney’s Brook on plaintiff’s property, and damage to one of plaintiff’s buildings, resulted from the erosion of the gravel and silt bed of the stream which allowed the seepage of water under and behind the wall. Plaintiff sues the defendant municipalities, charging that when each built high smooth masonry walls along the sides of the brook above and below plaintiff’s lands, and lowered and then paved the bed of the stream with a reinforced smooth concrete floor, but did…