City of Aberdeen v. Lytle Logging & Mercantile Co.

Citations

• 58 Wash. 368
• 108 P. 945
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 942

Syllabus

<p>Waters and Water Cobbses—Pollution of Stream—Riparian Rights—Equity—Injunction. Equity will restrain a logging company from polluting a stream constituting a city water supply, by the use of a bridge which had settled into the water, where the bridge could be raised and the injury obviated at slight expense, even though the logging operations were carried on in the usual manner; since (1) each riparian owner’s rights is qualified by the reasonable rights of the other, and (2) the pollution was due to improper use of the land and not of the waters of the stream.</p>