Steffen v. Snohomish County

Herman, Steffen and his wife own a farm of ninety acres, containing about sixty-five acres of bottom land on the Skykomish river, in Snohomish county. They have lived on the farm more than thirty years. It is situate on the left bank or south side of the river, which runs westerly at this point.

They brought this action in April, 1935, against the county, complaining that, in 1934, the county, upon procuring a right-of-way over the Hirschy farm below and adjacent to plaintiffs’ farm, proceeded unlawfully and wrongfully to construct a dam along the right-of-way across Haskell slough, a small…