Sterns Lumber Co. v. Penobscot Bay Electric Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report on questions of law. This is an action to recover damages sustained by plaintiff because of the alleged nonfeasance and misfeasance of the defendant in the storage and use of water in the Wilson Stream Dam in the years 1917 and 1918. The plaintiff owned and operated a lumber mill on the Penobscot River at Hampden, and during said years carried on lumbering operations on and near Wilson Stream in Piscataquis County to obtain logs for its mill, and Wilson Stream was…
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On report on questions of law. This is an action to recover damages sustained by plaintiff because of the alleged nonfeasance and misfeasance of the defendant in the storage and use of water in the Wilson Stream Dam in the years 1917 and 1918. The plaintiff owned and operated a lumber mill on the Penobscot River at Hampden, and during said years carried on lumbering operations on and near Wilson Stream in Piscataquis County to obtain logs for its mill, and Wilson Stream was the only route for driving its logs to Sebee Lake and thence to the Penobscot River. The defendant corporation is a…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
This is an action on the case brought by the plaintiff, a log owner, to recover damages sustained because of the alleged nonfeasance and misfeasance of the defendant in the storage and use of water in the Wilson Stream Dam, so called, in the years 1917 and 1918. The case was referred to two Justices of this court who found the facts and reported certain questions of law to the Law Court under Rule XLV. By agreement of the parties the case was then reported to this court upon the-questions of law reported by the referees and upon their findings of fact.
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