North Bend Lumber Co. v. City of Seattle

In May, 1919, the plaintiff lumber company commenced this action in the superior court for King county, seeking recovery of damages alleged to have been suffered by it as the result of the negligent action of the defendant city in impounding the waters of Cedar river for generating electric power. More particularly, the claimed damages are alleged to have resulted, in December, 1918, from the city raising the level of the impounded waters to such height that they were thereby caused to escape, through the northerly porous moraine barrier of the city’s impounding reservoir, in such sudden…