Harvey v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 63 Wash. 669
• 116 P. 464
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1263

Syllabus

<p>Waters and Water Courses — Surface Waters — Floods—Protection Against — Liability. Flood waters overflowing the hanks of a stream are surface waters, an outlaw and common enemy, against which a riparian owner may protect itself by turning the same back into the stream; and if a lower proprietor is thereby injured by eddies and currents different from the natural flow of the stream, it is damnum absque injuria, for which no recovery can be had.</p>