Laduca v. Draves
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry Draves, from a judgment of the County Court of Chautauqua county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 24th day of January, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $175; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of February, 1910, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered on the 24th day of January, 1910, permitting…
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Appeal by the defendant, Henry Draves, from a judgment of the County Court of Chautauqua county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 24th day of January, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $175; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of February, 1910, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered on the 24th day of January, 1910, permitting plaintiff to amend his complaint and to file the same nunc pro tunc as of the date of the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, J.:
The judgment from which the defendant appeals is for damages sustained by flooding th¿ plaintiff’s land and injuring his vineyard .and crops, wrongfully, caused by the defendant, as the plaintiff contends.
The controversy is between the defendant, a highway commissioner, and the plaintiff, the owner of a farm adjoining the highway. A ditch on the plaintiff’s farm.discharged its waters into the highway. The defendant, for the purpose of protecting the highway, obstructed the ditch, and turned the water back on the plaintiff’s land, causing the damage.
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