Robeson v. Schuylkill Navigation Co.

The facts fully appear in the .opinion of the court by

Black, J.

The defendants below were authorized by the act which incorporated them to build dams on the Schuylkill Eiver, being responsible for all injuries thereby occasioned to private property. Under this charter they caused the dam at Fairmount to be built by the city of Philadelphia. It injured the property of Peter Eobeson, the plaintiff’s father, but his claim for damages was compromised, or, rather, it was ascertained and paid, in 1823. He acknowledged satisfaction and gave them a full release. Since then the Navigation Company,…