Selah & Moxee Canal Co. v. Belaire
Selah & Moxee Canal Co. v. Belaire
Opinion of the Court
The appellant is a corporation conducting an irrigation canal, in Yakima county. The canal was constructed across the land now owned by respondents and others in the year 1901. Respondents became owners of the land about the year following the construction of the canal. In the spring of 1910, respondents commenced an action to enjoin appellant from maintaining its canal across respondents’ land, and for damages for different causes, amounting to $2,500. That action was tried by the court without a jury, and resulted in a judgment in favor of respondents for the sum of $153.20, and an injunction preventing the appellant from maintaining its canal. But the decree entered therein allowed appellant forty days within which time to commence an independent action to condemn a right of way for its canal, which resulted in the present action being brought. The cause was tried before a jury, and resulted in a verdict assessing the damages in the total sum of $1,000.
It is assigned that the court erred in admitting the testimony of George Bergevins and others, as to the condition of
The judgment is affirmed.
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