Weiser Valley Land & Water Co. v. Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Idaho. Condemnation proceedings by the Weiser Valley Land & Water Company against Colonel W. Ryan and another. From a judgment assessing damages, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
, WOLVERTON, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, which was the plaintiff below, is a corporation engaged in- the construction and maintenance of an irrigation project. For the purpose of obtaining a site for a dam and reservoir, plaintiff instituted a suit to condemn the lands of the defendants, consisting of 320 acres, each of them owning 160 acres. The proposed site is situated in Rost Valley, Washington county, Idaho, at an altitude of from 4,000 to 6,000 feet above sea level. Rost river flows through the valley, and passes out through a narrow canyon. The purpose is to construct a dam…
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