Hutchinson v. Watson Slough Ditch Co.
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, for the County of Bingham. Hon. J. M. Stevens, Judge. An action by the plaintiff to enjoin and restrain defendants from shutting off and interfering with the flow of the stream at Watson slough, in Bingham county. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal.
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, for the County of Bingham. Hon. J. M. Stevens, Judge. An action by the plaintiff to enjoin and restrain defendants from shutting off and interfering with the flow of the stream at Watson slough, in Bingham county. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal. A slough which carries no water except the overflow waters of a river in times of flood, which as compared with the volume of water in the river is insignificant, and which has no original water of its own, but is simply a conduit by which occasionally some of the flood water…
1Opinion of the CourtAilshie, J.
This action involves the right of the appellants to shut off the waters of a stream or body of water called Watson slough, in Bingham county, and to prevent the waters flowing down the stream in the natural channel, Watson slough appears to be a natural channel diverting the waters of Snake river from the main stream at a point on the west side of the river about two and one-half miles southwest from Blackfoot, in Bingham county, and flowing thence in a southwesterly direction, for a distance of about eight miles and then emptying back into the Snake river. This slough or stream flows-…
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