Legal Opinion
Sturtevant v. Ford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 22, 1932PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
The plaintiff seeks by this suit in equity to restrain the defendants from maintaining certain dams so as to deprive him as a lower riparian proprietor of the natural flow of water in Hop Brook, to recover damages sustained by him through their alleged unreasonable interference with the waters of the brook, and for other relief. The real estate and water rights involved are in the town of Sud--bury. The watershed of the brook comprises about four square miles. The principles of law governing the respective rights of upper and lower proprietors upon a stream are stated with citation of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Baltimore & Potomac Railroad v. Fifth Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Stevens v. Rockport Granite Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Commonwealth v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Stratton v. Mount Hermon Boys' SchoolMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Emery v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Belkus v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Shaw v. HardingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Board of Selectmen of Hatfield v. GarveyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Malinoski v. D. S. McGrath, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Ryder v. Town of LexingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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