Garnet Ditch & Reservoir Co. v. Sampson

That it is competent for the general assembly to compel an owner of property, whether or not he is negligent, to respond in damages for all injuries resulting therefrom or caused thereby, in its construction or use, to property of others, in eases like this, there can be no doubt. ,And I am not prepared to say that the construction which, in the opinion of the chief justice* is put upon the section o-f the statute under consideration, if the same be wholly removed from other sections of the act of which it is a part, is not reasonable, or not one that the language naturally imports, or that…