Robert Blood v. The City of New York and S. A. Healy Company

Plaintiff is the owner of resort properties on the Delaware River about five miles downstream from the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink Rivers at Port Jervis, New York, and about forty-five miles below the Neversink Dam, constructed by defendant, S. A. Healy Company, for and under contract with defendant, the City of New York. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged negligence, nuisance and trespass in that the construction of the dam had rendered the water of the Delaware River, as it passed plaintiff’s property, so turbid and muddy that it violated his rights as property owner and interfered…