Hydraulic Power Co. v. Pettebone-Cataract Paper Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal, in the first above-entitled action, by the defendant, Pettebone-Cataract Paper Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 14th day of July, 1920, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Erie Special Term.
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Appeal, in the first above-entitled action, by the defendant, Pettebone-Cataract Paper Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 14th day of July, 1920, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Erie Special Term. Appeal, in the second above-entitled action, by the defendant, Cataract City Milling Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clérk of the county of Niagara on the 14th day of July, 1920, upon the decision…
1Opinion of the Court
Lambert, J.:
These actions involve identical issues and differ only slightly in their facts. They were tried together and come to this court upon a single record. Decision in one necessarily controls in the other.
*646The plaintiff is.the owner of a hydro-electric system at Niagara Falls. By means of a canal it taps the Niagara river above the falls and conveys water therefrom to a basin located on the high bank of the river below the falls. From this basin the water is carried over the bank onto turbines near the river level and thereby much electric power is generated.
The defendants by mesne…
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