Edinburg Irr. Co. v. Ledbetter

* Writ of error granted February 21. 1923. This was a suit in the nature of a suit interesse suo instituted by A. Ledbetter et al., appellee, and 11 others similarly situated, against the Edinburg Irrigation Company, the W. E. Stewart Land Company, the Stewart Farm Mortgage Company, W. E. Stewart, the Hidalgo Land Company, the San Antonio Loan Trust Company, the American National Insurance Company, and James Hoit. It was purely one in equity on the part of owners with water rights under the irrigation system of the Edinburg Irrigation Company in Hidalgo county, Tex., for relief by injunction…