Oldenburg v. Oregon Sugar Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union : Robert Eakin, Judge. Action by L. Oldenburg against the Oregon Sugar Company, a private corporation. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
This is an action to recover damages for an injury to real property. Plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of certain land in Union County, bordering on Grande Ronde River; that the defendant, a corporation, unlawfully placed a dam in the channel of said stream, whereby the water was deflected, and overflowed his premises, washing away the earth, and destroying his irrigating ditches, and carrying off his fences, to his damage in the sum of $5,800. The defendant, having denied the material allegations of the complaint, averred that prior to the injury complained of the said river had been…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mendenhall v. Harrisburg Water Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1895
- Nashville v. ComarTennessee Supreme Court · 1890
- Plummer v. Penobscot Lumbering Ass'nSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1877
- Reynolds v. Chandler River Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1857
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