Legal Opinion
Melvin Griffeth and Lois D. Griffeth v. Utah Power & Light Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1955No. 13611_1PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.
The Griffeths own lands and are lessees of other lands in Franklin County, Idaho, through which the Bear River flows. The Utah Power & Light Company is engaged in the generation and sale of electric current in public service. The company has for more than twenty-five years maintained and operated plants and dams upon the Bear River in the manufacture of such electricity. Thereby, for that purpose, the waters have continuously been impounded, stored and released in accordance with the necessities of such an operation, causing the stream to fluctuate as it has…
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