Rindge v. Sargent
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, to restrain the deféndant from obstructing the free and natural flow of surface-water from the plaintiff’s land over and across the defendant’s land. Facts found by a referee.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
If the use made by the defendant of his land in obstructing the flow of the surface-water over it is to be considered by itself, independent of the relations of his land to surrounding lands, and without regard to the injury or inconvenience which the obstruction may cause to others, the referee finds that the defendant’s use of his land is reasonable; but if such reasonable use is to be determined, not solely in view of the defendant’s interest and convenience, but in view, also, of the interest and convenience of surrounding land-owners, he finds that the defendant’s use of his land, by…
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