Legal Opinion
Alesko v. Union Pacific Railroad
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided January 22, 1941No. 6817PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGivens, J.
Appellant sued to recover damages for the flooding of his homesite (buildings and yard shown in pictures below) and washing the top soil therefrom charged to have been occasioned by the negligent construction and maintenance of respondent’s pile-supported trestle, south and up stream from appellant’s premises, impeding and deflecting flood waters in Big Creek, Shoshone county, April 1938.
Plaintiff’s Exhibits 2, 6, and 3, graphically portray the situation before and during the flood:
The railroad bridge was constructed as part of respondent’s line up the South Fork of the Goeur d’Alene River in…
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