Krueger v. Crystal Lake Co.

A permanent injunction was granted by the district court restraining the defendants from diverting and conducting water from a natural watercourse through a conduit and' discharging it into Crystal lake, thereby overflowing certain lands of the plaintiff. Defendants and a large number of-intervening defendants have appealed.

• The’ facts are substantially as follows: Crystal lake, is a natural lake, about seven miles long, the bed of which was formerly the main.channel of the Missouri river. It is somewhat crescent shaped, and is of a character known in the Missouri valley as a “cut-off lake,”…