State ex rel. Curtiss v. Erickson

C. J. Erickson, a general contractor, had the contract for excavating a part of the Lake Washington canal. Carlson was a foreman who had charge of a part of the work. On October 22, 1910, the case of Bilger v. *640State, 63 Wash. 457, 116 Pac. 19, was pending in the superior court of Thurston county; and upon that day, the matter coming on for hearing upon the application of the plaintiffs for an order enjoining defendants from removing the embankment between the excavated portion of the canal and-Lake Washington, the court, being satisfied that such removal might tend to lower the waters of the…