Turtle v. Fitchett

Lake Burien is a small body of fresh water, about forty acres in extent, situated in the midst of a rather thickly settled community a few miles south of the business section of the city of Seattle. The lake is fed probably exclusively by the drainage of surface waters from the surrounding lands and has one small outlet which is dry during the summer months and through which, at the time of the trial of this action, according to the owner of the property through which the outlet passes, no water had run from the lake for more than a year. The entire lake frontage, including the shore lands,…