Johnson v. Gifford-Hill & Co.

This is a suit for damages caused by the choking up with sand from defendant’s wash gravel mill of a certain little creek or brook which once flowed perennially along the border of plaintiff’s property and furnished him with water for his crops and cattle, but now goes dry in the summer months when its waters are most needed.

The case was tried, and the testimony covers 135 typewritten pages; which it is impossible to analyze or summarize to any useul purpose.

Suffice it to say that it is hardly seriously disputed that the brook or creek has been considerably choked up with the sand washing…