Conger v. Pierce County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered April 28, 1920, granting a nonsuit and dismissing an action for damages caused by erosions due to certain river improvements.
1Opinion of the CourtBridges, J.
This is an action to recover damages caused by certain erosions, the result, it is alleged, of changes in and improvements of the Puyallup river, made by the defendants, which river, in part, forms the boundary line between the defendant counties and empties into Commencement Bay, at or near Tacoma. The complaint- alleged, and the plaintiff’s testimony tended to show, the following facts: On December 17, 1917, and for a number of years prior thereto, the Tacoma Meat Company, a corporation, owned a small tract of land bordering on the Puyallup river, near its mouth, on which land it had…
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