Legal Opinion
Motl v. Boyd
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 26, 1926No. 3740PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cureton
STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
This suit was filed in the District Court of Tom Green County by plaintiffs, Charles C. Motl and others, for an injunction restraining the defendants, R. W. Boyd and H. C. White, from pumping water for irrigation purposes from a reservoir in Spring Creek created by a dam built in 1886 by the remote vendors of the plaintiffs adjacent to lands now owned by defendants. A temporary injunction was granted Restraining the defendants from pumping the water from said reservoir for the purpose of irrigating their riparian land. The case was tried on motion to dissolve, and the…
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