State ex rel. Johnson v. Central Nebraska Public Power & Irrigation District

This is an action by the state of Nebraska on relation of Walter R. Johnson, attorney general, plaintiff and appellant, against the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, a corporation, defendant and appellee. The action is for damages on account of the construction of an irrigation canal across certain common school lands located in Lincoln county, Nebraska.

In the petition on which the action was presented it was alleged that the plaintiff was the owner of certain lands, the description of which is not necessary to be set out here, in Lincoln county, Nebraska, which lands…