Iodice v. State

This is an appeal by the State of New York from an award of the Court of Claims of the sum of $1,000 in favor of claimants for damage to their property located in the city of Rome, New York, caused by the overflow of the Mohawk River on October 2, 1945. It is the contention of the claimants that the flooding of the premises was occasioned by the negligence of employees of the State of New York in the operation of the Delta Dam Reservoir in that they failed to maintain the water in the reservoir at a level sufficiently below the top elevation of the spillway to hold back additional water…