New York Court of Claims October 15, 1923, Claim No. 14138 (Montezuma Garden Co. v. State)

Morschauser, J.

The claimant presented a claim against the state alleging that certain crops which it had growing upon its premises were in September, 1915, damaged and destroyed as a result of the overflow and leakage of water from the Erie canal and new Barge canal by reason of the negligent operation of its canal on the part of the state in the construction and maintenance of said Erie and