Stearns-Rogers Manufacturing Co. v. Jackson Lake Reservoir & Irrigation Co.

The defendant in error, plaintiff below, the Jackson Lake Reservoir and Irrigation Company, owned a reservoir in Morgan County commonly known as Jackson Lake. In order to drain the deeper parts of the reservoir a large ditch, about a mile long and one to eighteen feet deep, was constructed on a slight grade from the lowest level of the natural basin to the outlet. In June, 1911, this ditch had become so clogged by natural accumulations of sand,. silt, weeds and other vegetable matter, that it would not draw off the water at the lower levels, and the company sought a means of overcoming the…