McClure v. Calispell Duck Club

Appellant, as plaintiff, brought this action to recover damages alleged to have been caused by erection of a dam across the outlet of Calispell lake in Pend Oreille county in 1926, thus raising the water level of the lake and so flooding and raising the water table under one hundred twenty acres of natural meadow land adjacent to the lake belonging to her as to destroy its productivity.

Appellant avers that she has thus suffered irreparable loss, and prays that the dam be abated as a nuisance ; that the defendant be restrained from maintaining the same, and that she be given a money judgment…