Thompson v. Miller

This suit grows out of the damage done to the defendant’s farm in Arlington by the flood of 1927. On this farm there was a pond made by an earth dam which set back the waters of a brook that ran through it. On this dam was built a road which led from the highway to the farm buildings. There was another road to the place, a “back road, ” but the one on the dam was commonly used. The flood washed out the dam, thus destroying the road, and left the place inaccessible, except by way of the back road, which the flood left in very bad shape. At this time, the defendant was in Paris engaged in the…