Hewitt-Lea Lumber Co. v. King County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered April 23, 1919, upon findings in favor of the defendant, dismissing an action for damages to property, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
Appellant, as plaintiff below, brought this action to recover from respondent, damages in the sum of $125,000 alleged to have been suffered by it from the lowering of the waters of Lake Washington through the construction of the Lake Washington ship canal, which lowering caused the waters of Mercer Slough, an arm of Lake Washington, to recede, thus destroying appellant’s use of the slough as a means of transporting its products from its mill at the head of the slough to Lake Washington, or, in other words, caused a loss of its right to navigate Mercer Slough.
Prior to the trial below, it was…
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