Longmire v. Yakima Highlands Irrigation & Land Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Yakima county, Preble, J., entered March 21, 1916, in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action to enjoin the diversion of the waters of a creek used for irrigation purposes, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Main, J. —
By this action, the plaintiffs sought to have the defendant restrained from interfering with the flow of the *303water in Wenas creek. The trial resulted in a judgment restraining the defendant from impounding the waters of the creek for use upon nonriparian land. From this judgment, the defendant appeals.
Wenas creek is a small stream which rises on the east slope of the Cascade mountains, and flows in a southeasterly direction for a distance of forty or fifty miles, where it empties into the Yakima river. The valley through which this creek flows is from a quarter of a mile to a mile…
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