West Side Irr. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Washington; Frank H. Rud-kin, Judge. Bill by the United States against the West Side Irrigation Company, filed September 26, 1913. From a decree for the United States (230 Fed. 284), defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Washington; Frank H. Rud-kin, Judge. Bill by the United States against the West Side Irrigation Company, filed September 26, 1913. From a decree for the United States (230 Fed. 284), defendant appeals. The appellant is a corporation organized in the year 1889, under the laws of the territory of Washington, to construct and maintain a canal for the purpose of conveying water from the Yakima river and distributing the same for the use and benefit of its stockholders, who are farmers. It…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The appellant was one of a large number of the users and appropriators of tlie waters of the Yakima river who executed like contracts at the same time, and under similar circumstances. At the time when the Reclamation Service promulgated a scheme to increase largely the supply of water of the Yakima river for irrigation purposes, more than all the natural flow of the river during the irrigation season had been covered by appropriations. It was not the purpose of the Reclamation Service to use any of the natural flow of the river. It was the intention to…
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