Miller v. Wheeler
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chelan county, Steiner, J., entered January 7, 1908, dismissing an action for an injunction respecting waters used for irrigation, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
In 1871 Philip Miller settled upon a tract of land now in Chelan county, Washington. At the time, a prior settler, whose improvements he bought, had appropriated and diverted about one hundred miner’s inches of water, then flowing in the Quil-toc-chin, latterly called the Squillchuck, a small stream flowing out of the mountains across the Wenatchee valley and into the Columbia river. Thereafter, before the intervention of other rights, he dug a larger ditch, and appropriated and put to beneficial use three hundred and twenty miner’s inches, measured under six-inch pressure.
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