L. G. Balfour Co. v. Ablondi & Boynton Corp.

The plaintiff, a manufacturer of jewelry with a plant located in Attleboro on both sides of the Ten Mile River immediately north of County Street, brought an action in tort to recover damages suffered from the flooding of its factory. The plaintiff alleged that the flooding resulted in part from an increase in the level of the river running next to its factory caused by fill and other debris neg ligently left in the riverbed by the defendant after it had completed construction of a road bridge at County Street. The case was tried to a jury whose verdict for the plaintiff was entered under…