Henry Ford & Son, Inc. v. Little Falls Fibre Co.

This case comes here on writ of certiorari to review a determination of the Court of Appeals of New York, 249 N. Y. 495, upon which a judgment was entered in the state Supreme Court, awarding damages and an injunction restraining petitioner from maintaining flashboards on the crest of the “ Federal Dam,” constructed in the Hudson River near Troy, New York, under acts of Congress. Act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 630, c. 382, March 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 801, c. 144.

Respondents, it is stipulated, are riparian owners on the Mohawk River, above its confluence with the Hudson, where at a point about…