Legal Opinion
Camp Far West Irr. Dist. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided December 2, 1946No. 46230PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Judge.
This is a claim for just compensation based upon the alleged taking of what plaintiff claims was a valuable prescriptive right to construct a diversion dam each year for irrigating lands owned by its members.
Plaintiff is an irrigation district organized under the laws of the State of California. The district includes 4,090 acres of land, about 2,045 acres of which are irrigable. For years the district has been supplied by plaintiff with water from the Bear River.
Various perennial as well as annual crops were grown on these lands. None of these could be grown without water which…
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