Diking District No. 2 v. Calispel Duck Club

This is an action to enjoin the maintenance of a dam. Respondent is the owner of a fifteen hundred acre tract of land in the valley of the Calispel river, in Pend Oreille county, Washington, on which is situated a body of water called Calispel lake. Respondent, since 1907, has maintained a dam across the outlet of the lake, and has used the lake as a wild fowl resort and for the purposes of a duck hunting club. The property represents a capital outlay in excess of seventy thousand dollars, and an even greater sum has been spent on its upkeep during the more than thirty years of its existence.…