Hoefs v. Short
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Reeves County; S. J. Isaacks, Judge. Suit by J. C. Short against Otto Hoefs and others. From the judgment, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
This suit was brought by Short against appellants, Otto, Rudolph, Edwin, and Arthur Hoefs. The material allegations of plaintiff’s petition are substantially as follows: That he is the owner of section 58 in block 13, Houston & Great Northern Railway Company survey, which is crossed by an intermittently flowing stream called Barilla creek, situated in the arid or semiarid region of the state, where irrigation is required to grow ‘crops; that said creek is fed by rains falling within its watershed, which lies south of his land; that the creek flows in a well-defined channel, with well-defined…
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