Ami Co. v. Tide Water Lumber Co.

Citations

• 51 Wash. 171
• 98 P. 380
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 989

Syllabus

<p>Navigable Waters — Riparian Rights — Obstructions—Damages —Excessiveness. A judgment for $950 damages for the obstruction of a navigable river, whereby the water was diverted, resulting in the washing away of nineteen one-hundredths of an acre of land, of the value of $5,000 per acre, will not be held excessive from the fact that surveys of the land showed an accretion instead of a loss to the tract, where it appears that the accretion was due to the owner’s efforts in protecting the head of the land, and to the construction of a bridge upstream, while loss was occasioned downstream at the foot of the land by defendant’s obstruction.</p>