Mason v. Yearwood

Citations

• 105 Wash. 335
• 177 P. 777
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 988

Syllabus

<p>Waters and Water Courses (61, 62)—Prescriptive Rights—Extent—Laches—Estoppel. Where an owner, entitled by prescription to seepage waters for irrigation, for years delayed to establish her rights, refused to accept the waters through a closed drain and stood by for years while adjoining lands were drained and reclaimed at great expense, she is estopped by laches from interfering with the reclamation; and her prescriptive right should be subject to such diversion as may be necessary to protect the lands drained, which can in no event be used as a reservoir for the storage of the waters.</p>