Murray v. Wishkah Boom Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Irwin, J., entered January 3, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages from breach of implied contract.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
This is an action to recover damages which the plaintiffs allege resulted to them from the failure of the defendant to cause artificial freshets or “splashes” from its splash dam, maintained in the Wishkah river, in Chehalis *606county, so that their logs could be moved while in the river bed and escape being burned by neighboring forest fires by which they were destroyed. Verdict and judgment were rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, from which the defendant has appealed.
Appellant is a driving and boom company, organized as such under the statutes of this state, having control of the Wishkah…
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