Davis v. Chamberlain
Oregon Supreme Court
From Jackson: Hiero K Hanna, Judge. This is a suit by Allen Davis and others against H. M. Chamberlain and others, to restrain defendants and each of them from diverting any water from Wagner Creek, a tributary of Bear Creek, in Jackson County, Oregon, above the head of plaintiff’s ditches. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, a part of defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eakin
Plaintiffs are the owners of five water ditches involved in this suit, viz., the Wagner & Thornton ditch, the Beeson & Robison ditch, the Davenport ditch, the Rock-fellow ditch, and the Farmers’ ditch. The appropriations through these ditches were made at different times and in different amounts. Each plaintiff owns an interest in some one of these ditches, but they are not all interested in the same one, and, there being no controversy between them, .they have made common cause against defendants. They take water out of Wagner Creek, a tributary of Bear Creek, in Jackson County, Oregon,…
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