Pollard v. Moore
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This is a petition by Roland Pollard and another against Lovinia Moore and others, by mill-owners, under the act for the “ encouragement of manufactures,” passed July 3,1868. A committee was duly appointed, according to the provisions of the act, at the September term, 1870. A hearing was had before them, and a report made by them at this term of their estimate of the damages; and now the petitioners move to be nonsuit; but the court denied the motion, and the petitioners…
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This is a petition by Roland Pollard and another against Lovinia Moore and others, by mill-owners, under the act for the “ encouragement of manufactures,” passed July 3,1868. A committee was duly appointed, according to the provisions of the act, at the September term, 1870. A hearing was had before them, and a report made by them at this term of their estimate of the damages; and now the petitioners move to be nonsuit; but the court denied the motion, and the petitioners excepted. The questions of law were reserved for the whole court. The plaintiffs move to become nonsuit for the following…
1Opinion of the CourtSargent, J.
This is a petition for the assessment of damages for land of the defendants, flowed or otherwise injured by means of a mill-dam erected by plaintiffs under the provisions of chapter 20 of the laws of 1868, entitled “ An act for the encouragement of manufactures.” The petition has been properly entered in court; a committee have been appointed; that committee have heard the parties, examined the premises, and made report. They have found, in the words of the statute, that “ the flowing or draining of said land, to the depth and extent that the same may or can be flowed by said dam, is or may…
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