Luchsinger v. Loup River Public Power District

This is an action by Sam Luchsinger, plaintiff, to recover from the Loup River Public Power District, defendant, damages for destroying by drainage subirrigation of lands owned by him.

*180Plaintiff alleges in his petition that he owns in Platte county 68 acres of land in the north half of the northeast quarter of section 16, and 80 acres consisting of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 17, township 17 north, range 1 east of the sixth P. M., and that defendant excavated adjacent to or near these lands below the underground water-table a permanent tailrace extending from its power…