Mount v. State

The claim which the Court is required to consider pleads two distinct factual situations, each of which allegedly gives rise to compensable damages in favor of Claimants and against the State. The first involves the State’s alleged failure to maintain a water gate which was on a river which crosses through the contiguous properties of the State and of the Claimants, which alleged negligence was the proximate cause of a flooding of Claimants’ land and destruction of crops; the second involves the State’s refusal to erect and/or maintain a division fence between its property (the Vienna Branch…