Karnuff v. Kelch

*500The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

The declaration avers that the plaintiffs were seized and possessed of a tract of land in Middlesex county upon which they had built -their residence and had their garden, a well and various buildings, and upon which they lived with their family; that they also had upon the same tract two other houses, occupied by their tenants, and which they were accustomed to rent; that the defendants constructed an embankment upon lands adjoining the plaintiffs’ premises and kept the embankment filled with water; that the embankment was so negligently and…