American Woolen Co. v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the claimant, American Woolen Company, from a judgment of the Court of Claims of the State of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 8th day of March, 1920, dismissing the claims of the said claimant, and, as stated in the notice of appeal, from the decision of the said court upon which the said judgment was rendered.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
The claimant is the owner of fifteen and two-tenths acres of land on the Oswego river, situated between two dams long ago created by the State. The boundaries extend to the center of the stream. On this property are large mills, the power for their operation being furnished by the head of water from the upper dam. Between 1909 and 1913 the State engaged in the work of improving the Oswego canal by deepening the channel of the river, as authorized by chapter 147 of the Laws of 1903, and raised the level of the two dams, thereby interfering with the water power of the claimant.
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