State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Casarez

COMPTON, Justice.

This joint appeal is from a judgment enjoining the misapplication of the waters of the Roswell-Artesian basin andi from a judgment in contempt.

Appellant is the owner of irrigable lands within the basin, part of which has water rights for irrigation from a shallow water basin and a part has water rights from the artesian basin.

On July 1, 1947 appellee filed a second amended complaint charging appellant with the misapplication of the waters of the basin for the crop years 1946 and 1947 by applying water from the shallow water basin upon lands having no waiter rights therein,…