Gila Water Co. v. Witbeck

DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order appointing, with broad powers, a receiver for the Gila Water Company. The company is the owner of more-than 75,000 acres of land in Arizona and of a canal system headed by a dam in the Gila river, constructed to supply water for the irrigation of the land. The plaintiff, *176Ruth Witbeek/ is the holder of a small amount, 125 shares, of its capital stock, and in her complaint she alleges that she brings the action not oniy in her own behalf but upon the behalf of Arthur Ainsworth, Frank Ainsworth, and Sylvia Craig, who are her brothers and…