Aasmundstad v. State

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Approximately 100 owners of land near Devils Lake (“landowners”) appeal from a district court judgment dismissing their inverse condemnation claims against nine water resource districts in the upper Devils Lake drainage basin and against the State, the State Engineer, and the State Water Commission (“defendants”). The landowners claim 15 government drainage projects in the Devils Lake drainage basin proximately caused flooding of their property above the ordinary high watermark of Devils Lake, which constituted the taking or damaging of their property without just…