Nahl v. Alta Irrigation District

In the month of March, 1911, the plaintiff’s land, embracing forty acres and situated in near, proximity to one of the water ditches of the defendant corporation, in Tulare County, this state, was inundated by water, and a large number of eucalyptus trees which he had planted and was cultivating on said land was thereby destroyed. In his complaint, the plaintiff charges that the damage to his land and trees was caused by the inundation of said land from water running in and through the corporation’s ditch, and that said overflowing of said water was entirely and directly due to the…