Pasco Reclamation Co. v. Cox

In the spring and summer of 1909, the plaintiff was engaged in promoting a scheme whereby 4,000 acres of land, in the vicinity of Pasco, should be conveyed to Pasco Fruit Lands Company, a Washington corporation, in ex*550change for water rights for an equal number-' of acres, the water to be supplied by the plaintiff. The plan contemplated was that the plaintiff should construct an irrigation system capable of perpetually supplying water between the first day of April and the first day of October of each year, to the extent of 1% acre feet per acre per year, for irrigating 4,000 acres of-land…