Stephenson v. Pioneer Irrigation District

Plaintiff-respondent sued the defendant-appellant, an irrigation district, for damages on two causes of action: First for injuries to the crops on his land during 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926, caused by water seeping, percolating and escaping from appellant’s canal; and second, to recover for the permanent injury and destruction of two acres of the said land in an attempt to drain the same. The appeal is from a judgment on both causes of action.

Numerous assignments of error are made which, however, group themselves into the following divisions: First, the sufficiency of the complaint to state a…