McCauley v. Salmon

Defendants own and operate motorboats on the Des Moines River. Plaintiff owns riparian lands bordering said .river. This is a class action, brought under section 10974, Code of Iowa, 1939, by plaintiff for himself and adjacent riparian landowners against defendants and-others, alleging they operated motorboats in such manner as to cause unreasonable noise and at such high rates of speed as to create waves which damaged said riparian lands by eroding the banks above and below the high-water mark of the stream. He prayed an injunction restraining the operation of motorboats (1) with…