Legal Opinion

Wendler v. Woodard

Washington Supreme Court

Decided December 26, 1916No. 13392PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Stevens county, Jackson, J., entered September 11, 1914, in favor of the plaintiff, in an action to quiet title to waters for irrigation, tried to the court.

1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.

Issue was joined in this cause by admissions and denials in the answers of the several defendants to the amended complaint of respondent alleging sufficient facts and praying that he be decreed title, to the extent of 200 cubic inches of water per second of time, to the waters flowing in a nonnavigable stream called Cottonwood creek, by right of prior appropriation thereof, and the title and right to the ditch or waterway through which he had conveyed the water from the place of diversion upon the lands now owned and occupied by some of the defendants, and over, upon, and across the lands now…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Porter v. . International Bridge Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
  2. Crook v. HewittWashington Supreme Court · 1892
  3. Gibson v. SlaterWashington Supreme Court · 1906
  4. Lechman v. MillsWashington Supreme Court · 1907
  5. Smith v. StilesWashington Supreme Court · 1912

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Northwest Cities Gas Co. v. Western Fuel Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1942
  2. In Re Peterson's EstateWashington Supreme Court · 1942
  3. Faulkner v. HookSupreme Court of Missouri · 1923
  4. Dahlberg v. LannenMontana Supreme Court · 1929
  5. Seymour Water Co. v. LeblineIndiana Supreme Court · 1924

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