Norris v. Glenn

Hollister, J., concurred.

This is an action in which the plaintiff alleges in his complaint that he was in the lawful possession of certain lots of land therein described, through which ran a certain watercourse from Boise river, and that the defendants built a dam across said watercourse, a little below the plaintiff’s land, whereby a backwater was caused that hindered a free course of the water through said watercourse, and caused the waters thereof to flow back on and over the land of the plaintiff, by reason of which he was damaged generally in the sum of one thousand dollars, and…