Twin Lakes Reservoir & Canal Co. v. Sill

Action in trespass for damages and injunctive relief by private landowner against a mutual water storage and canal company. From a judgment against it below, the company seeks reversal on writ of error. Reference will be made to defendant in error by name and to plaintiff in error as the company.

Sill was the owner and occupant of a five-hundred-acre ranch in Lake county, upon which he had lived and where he had farmed for many years. Through his land flowed Lake creek, a natural stream on the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, which, after a course of about nine miles, emptied into Twin…