Reed v. . the State
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from award of the Board of Claims made September 10, 1884, which allowed nothing to the claimant upon a claim for damages to his lands in Onondaga county, alleged to have been caused by water percolating from the “ Jamesville Reservoir.” The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Rugeb, Oh. J.
Prior to the year 1873 the state became the owner of about 160 acres of land in the town of Lafayette, Onondaga county, lying in a valley on both sides of Butternut creek. For the purpose of providing a feeder for the Erie canal it proceeded, through its own agents, without the intervention of contractors, to construct a dam across the valley, by which means a large body of water, covering about sixty or seventy acres of land to a depth of thirty feet or less, was. collected in a reservoir, and there retained and used, as occasion required, for the canal. In the course of the…
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