Coulson v. Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Co.

This is .an action for damages for the death of a bull. Appellant is a land owner on what is known as the Aberdeen-Springfield irrigation project, and respondent operates the canal which furnishes appellant and other farmers with water for the irrigation of their lands. Among its other canals and laterals, respondent operates what is known as the low line canal, which extends to and terminates upon the lands of appellant. From the point where the canal terminates, respondent uses what is known as a waste ditch for the purpose of conducting unused or waste water into Carter Creek, through…