New England Mica Co. v. Waltham Factories, Inc.

This is a suit in equity, brought in the Superior Court, to recover damages resulting from the flooding of *57the plaintiff’s land and factory buildings, in March, 1936, and alleged to have been caused by the negligent maintenance and operation, by the defendants, of the flash-boards on a dam owned by the defendant corporation.* The case was referred to a master who reported thereon; it now comes before us on the defendants’ appeal from the interlocutory decree confirming the master’s report, and from the final decree entered in the court below ordering the defendants to pay to the plaintiff as…