Denton v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the claimants, Alonzo Denton and others, from a judgment of the Court of Claims, entered in the office of the clerk of the Court of Claims on the 19th day of December, 1900, dismissing their respective claims.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The claimants ask for damages claimed to have been caused by reason of the State’s interference with the navigability of Black river. The claimants are mill owners and own forest property by the stream. Their claims are based, not upon an invasion of their, riparian rights, but upon an invasion of their rights to this stream as a public highway. The claimed interference is by the construction of a reservoir dam (under Laws of 1883, chap. 452). Formerly at Forestport, on said river, a dam had been constructed, and by *250said dam the claimants’ mills are located. ■ This reservoir dam was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Merriam v. SchoonmakerNew York Court of Appeals · 1855
3Cited by19 opinions
- Jewish Hospital v. DoeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
- Lee v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1946
- Port of New York Authority v. J. E. Linde Paper Co.City of New York Municipal Court · 1953
- Gould v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1949
- Port of NY Authority v. Weehawken Tp.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1953
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