Card v. Nickerson

This is an action on the case brought in the Superior Court for Androscoggin County, for damages caused by the obstruction by defendant of a water course, where water flowed from the plaintiff’s property in Auburn to and through the adjoining property of the defendant and thence by pond and brook into the Little Androscoggin River. The case comes to the Law Court on defendant’s exceptions.

The record shows, and the jury might properly find, that the plaintiff Bertron L. Card acquired his property in 1919, and that the defendant Elmer Nickerson purchased a portion of his premises in 1937, and…