Miller v. Eastern Railway & Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lewis county, Rice, J., entered April 13, 1914, upon the verdict of a' jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages for overflowing lands.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Respondent is a lessee in possession of a tract of land lying east of property owned by appellant, and occupied by it as a sawmill property. The property was low ground and is put to agricultural and garden uses. Before the land was cleared and cultivated, the surface waters and waters drawn from a gulch to the east of respondent’s property scattered over his land. Three ditches have been dug across the land. These flow into a channel called China Ditch. The three ditches converge at or about the east line of appellant’s property. In the spring of 1913, appellant, intending to dredge and…
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