Gowing v. McCandless

How courts have described this case

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• action for permanent damages less appropriate where there is uncertainty as to future use of land, preventing accurate estimate of damages
• “[T]he principle upon which one is charged as a continuing wrongdoer is that he has a legal right, and is under a legal duty, to terminate the cause of the injury.”
• “The [statute of limitations question] involved on this appeal is one normally encountered where damages occur when water overflows agricultural land. On this general subject our decisions are conflicting,” id. at 143-44, 547 P.2d 338

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).