Bower v. Big Horn Canal Ass'n.

OPINION

Plaintiff, Ray F. Bower, is the owner of some 569 acres of land sloping downward from the Big Horn Canal to the Big Horn River, all irrigable and part of it so seepy as to interfere with farming operations. The seepage water, all originating from the defendant’s canal, is in part a normal residual from the irrigation process and in part a seepage directly from the canal. This latter has materially increased in the past three years, since the construction of the Boysen Dam lessened the silt in the canal water. Plaintiff sought to improve the boggy condition by constructing on his farm…