cl-3571297
Precedential
Processed
Dow v. Electric Co.
Dow v. Electric Co., 43 A. 618 (Dec. 5, 1898).
Cited by
Overruled in 1
- Business Publication, Inc. v. Stephen 666 A.2d 932 N.H. 1995
- Long v. Long 611 A.2d 620 N.H. 1992
- Vratsenes v. N. H. Auto, Inc. 289 A.2d 66 N.H. 1972
- Cohn v. Saidel 53 A. 800 N.H. 1902
Opinion text
Wallace, J. The high-water mark on fresh-water rivers is not the highest point to which the stream rises in times of freshets, but is “ the line which the river impresses upon the soil by covering it for sufficient periods to deprive it of vegetation and to destroy its value for- agriculture.” Gould Wat., s. 45; Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 381 ; In re Minnetonka Lake, 56 Minn. 513 ; Houghton v. Railroad, 47 Ia. 370 . The instructions to the jury were in accordance with this principle. , Exception overruled. ' Pike, J., did not sit: the others concurred.