Vanderslice v. Irondale Electric Light, Heat & Power Co.

Citations

• 232 Pa. 435
• 81 A. 445
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 739

Syllabus

<p>Waters — Damages by flooding — Raceways—Permanent damages — Loss by subsequent grantee — Res adjudicata.</p> <p>Where a landowner brings an action against a corporation to recover damages for permanent injury done his land by the seepage of water from a raceway operated by the defendant and recovers damages for the entire destruction of the beneficial use of all his flooded land, a subsequent grantee of the land is not entitled to maintain an action against the corporation to recover for the later loss of crops or injury to the use and occupation of the same land where there is no evidence to show any change in the condition of the raceway or increase in the seepage therefrom, or that any more of the land was flooded.</p>