Rigney v. Tacoma Light & Water Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, Pierce County.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Anders, J.
— The respondent instituted this action to obtain an injunction against The Tacoma Light & Water Company, a duly organized corporation, to restrain it from diverting the waters, or any part thereof, of Spanaway (or Bushalier) creek, and of Upper Clover creek, from their natural channels, or polluting the same, and to compel it to remove the dams, flumes, ditches and filters placed therein, or connected therewith, by said defendant, and to restore said waters to their natural bed or channel.
That a large portion of the waters of the streams…
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