Beaumont Irrigating Co. v. Ellison

In effect, this was a suit by appellant against appellees to recover water rental on 88.7 acres of land cultivated by appellees in rice during the year 1922, at the rate of $8 per acre. There was* no contention on the part of appellant that appel-lees were furnished water under a contract, but by circumstantial evidence it sought to show that appellees irrigated their rice crop for the year 1922 with water from its canal. Appellees denied this contention, and offered proof that their rice crop was irrigated by natural drainage. On a trial to the court without a jury, judgment was entered for…