Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-13 | Page 2 | Cannot Collect Damages because of Canal Seepage

j Cannot Collect Damages Because Of Canal Seepage NORTH PLATTE, Neb . June 12 t-nited States District Judge Wood-rouqh. Wood-rouqh. holding; B session of fedora! court here today made a ruling resiitd-ed resiitd-ed us of first importance, to all irrfcia-tion irrfcia-tion companies v herein damages have been clnimed as a result of water seepage seep-age from canals. Judge WoodroiiRh held that a corn-pan, corn-pan, in th absence of negligence, eannot be su"i for seepage damage. Thomas Hooker a land holder of Scott's Bluff county, this state, asserted assert-ed his land had been ruined because of overflow from an irrigation canal. He claimed th construction of tho cnal was faulty in that it was duR m a foi-jmation foi-jmation of clay which permitted seep- I age. The court held that the overflow over-flow was unavoidable. no