CLARK v. ICICLE IRR. DIST.

No. 38899.

72 Wn.2d 201 (1967)

432 P.2d 541

GRAYSON CLARK, JR., et al., Respondents, v. ICICLE IRRIGATION DISTRICT, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

October 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes & Jeffers and W. Gordon Kelley, for appellant.

Charles W. Cone, for respondents.


HILL, J.

On February 27, 1965, the bank of an irrigation ditch, owned and maintained by the defendant, had broken or washed out, sending a large volume of water and mud approximately a hundred yards down a steep hill and against and through the house in which Grayson Clark, Jr., his wife, and their 20-month-old son were sleeping. Clark and his wife escaped with their lives. The child was killed; the room he occupied being filled almost to the ceiling with mud, dirt...

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