Jourdan v. Abbott Construction Company

Rene and Elfriede Jourdan, husband and wife, sued Abbott Construction Company1 for $20,000 damage because defendant had removed some 200,000 cubic yards of earth, rock and soil from their property and reduced the level of their land lower than the Snake River, rendering it useless. The Abbott company answered, denying generally and alleging that it was a road contractor with the Wyoming State Highway Commission, which had designated the area from whence borrowing materials were to have been obtained and asserting that if it had removed any materials from plaintiffs’ lands such was at the…