Boyd v. Conklin

Boyd sued defendants for removing part of a dam which he had built across the outlet which drained an adjoining highway and higher lands adjacent. Lorenzo D. Dewey owned a farm running north of the highway about half a mile, and a swale ran through this land from north to south which crossed the road through a culvert from which the water flowed across Boyd’s farm to a pond on his land which has no surface outlet. The swale is crossed by an old beaver dam near its north end, and a creek called Evans’ creek, a little to the north of it, sometimes overflows so that the water runs over this…