Springer Ditch Co. v. Wright

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

Referring to the parties according to • their status in the court below, defendant (appellant) owned an irrigation reservoir containing a body of water stored behind an earthen dam with concrete facing and coping, and plaintiffs (appellees), owned, immediately below said reservoir, certain lands, fully described in the complaint, “and á certain seepage ditch, and all other improvements situated on said lands, and the hay, vega, and other crops growing upon said lands. The dam gave way, causing the flooding of plaintiffs’ property, for which injury they recovered…