Conger v. Eugene Plywood Co.

Plaintiffs Benjamin P. Conger and Iva B. Conger, husband and wife, are the owners of a tract of land 127.67 acres in area in Lane County, Oregon. They charge that portions of their land comprising 78.9 acres have been inundated and rendered valueless by water negligently permitted to escape from log ponds built and maintained by the defendants Eugene Plywood Company, a corporation, and. Erminio Giustina and others, a co-partnership doing business as Giustina Bros. Lumber Company, to the damage of plaintiffs in the sum of $157,800.00. This action was brought to recover such damages.

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