Wood v Taranaki Electric-Power Board - [1927] NZLR 392

Compensation — Electric-power Board — Transmission-lines erected in Proximity to Drain — Claim by Adjoining Landowners for Compensation for Interference with their Right or Obligation to clean and repair Drain — Drain under Management and Control of Drainage Board — Duty to clean and repair that of Drainage Board and not of Adjoining Landowners — Liability of Board to Adjoining Landowners for Failure to discharge Duty — Duty not rendered impossible of Performance by Erection of Lines — Danger to Land or Stock from falling Wires — Claim not allowed — Land Drainage Act, 1908, ss 14, 23, 25, 26, 50, 62, 73 — Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, s 123 — Public Works Act, 1908, s 68.