Mead v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the claimant, Daniel J. Mead, from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 13th day of October, 1920, dismissing the claim of the claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The claimant is the owner of a field on which he attempted to raise potatoes in the year 1915. It is the claimant’s theory that the State of New York, in constructing a culvert under one of its improved highways, maintained under the .patrol system, negligently elevated the bottom of the drain to a point where" it would not take care of the surface waters, and that his crop of potatoes was ruined in the year mentioned by reason of the water remaining upon the surface of a considerable part of his field. The learned Court of Claims has made findings of fact and conclusions of law,…
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