Thomsen v. State

Poyhonen, J. † —

This is a case where the owners of a blueberry farm and cannery gave a public agency an easement to use a 20-foot strip of land adjacent to a river bank for river improvement and flood control purposes and later found themselves virtually out of business. Understandably they want to be reimbursed for their loss.

For clarity, a sketch of the property involved is shown.

The respondents purchased areas one, two, three, and four in 1922 from Cowley Investment Company, have been in posession at all times since, and from 1934 on have used the land for growing blueberries in commercial…