Sutliff v. Sweetwater Water Co.

This is an action to recover damages for injury done to the plaintiff’s land by the breaking, in the winter of 1916, of the Sweetwater reservoir, owned by the defendant corporation. The individual defendants are officei’s of the corporation and for simplicity we will treat the action as one against it alone, since the other defendants are certainly not liable if it is not. The cause was tried without a jury and resulted in a judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals upon the judgment-roll.

It appears from the pleadings and findings that the reservoir in question is an…