Ruddock v. Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

The laws of the state of Washington provide that any owner of land which is so situated with respect to the land of another that it is necessary for its proper use and enjoyment to have and maintain a private way of necessity, or to construct and maintain any drain, flume, or ditch, on, aeross, over, or through the land of such other, for agricultural, domestic, or sanitary purposes, may condemn and take lands of such other sufficient in area for the construction and maintenance of such drain, flume, or ditch, as the ease may be, and that the term “private way of…