George v. Pierce County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered June 18, 1919, upon findings in favor of the defendants, dismissing an action for an injunction, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
In the year 1883, or prior thereto, the Puyallup river, at or near the city. of Puyallup, by avulsion, made a new channel across the neck of a horseshoe or ox-bow bend in the stream as it had theretofore flowed, and thereafter, perhaps for four or five years, flowed through both the old and the new channel, but with the passing of time the old channel was closed up and the river was confined to the new channel, and long prior to the admission of this state in 1889, the old channel had become more or less filled with silt and alluvial deposits, had grown up to brush and timber, and in part was…
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