Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1857

Parks v. City of Newburyport

Parks v. City of Newburyport
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 15, 1857
76 Mass. 28

Parks v. City of Newburyport

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The declaration is for obstructing a watercourse, and the instruction allowed the jury to find for the plaintiff, though there was no watercourse. No action will lie for the interruption of mere surface drainage. Luther v. Winnisinimet Co. 9 Cush. 171. Ashley v. Wolcott, 11 Cush. 192.

Exceptions sustained.

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