Salem Capital Flour Mills Co. v. Stayton Water-Ditch & Canal Co.

This suit is brought by the Salem Capital Flour-Mills Company, a British corporation, against the Stayton Water-Ditch & Canal Company, a corporation formed under the laws of Oregon, and Silas A. and S. W. B. Jones, citizens of Oregon, to have said defendants enjoined from interfering with the prolongation of the plaintiff’s ditch, whereby waier is taken from the Santiam river and conducted in the channel of Mill creek to Salem, for the use of the plaintiff’s mills; and from diverting the water from the same.

The defendants demur to the bill, for that the plaintiff is not entitled to the relief…