Waite v. Siuslaw Boom Co.

Section 7297, Or. L., provides as follows:

“Whenever two or more contiguous tracts of land, not in a diking district, the property of separate owners, have been protected by a common dike, or by separate dikes so constructed as to afford a common benefit to the lands affected thereby, or upon which said dikes have been constructed, and any portion of said dike or dikes has become broken or destroyed or in such condition of repair that the land or lands intended to be benefited and protected by said dike or dikes are being injured by reason of the said broken, destroyed or other bad condition…