Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water Co. v. Caldwell

This appeal presents a controversy over an assessment for operation and maintenance of the Salmon River irrigation project in the State of Idaho.

In 1914 eight settlers under the project, for themselves and all others similarly situated, brought a suit in equity in the United States District Court to obtain a comprehensive adjudication of various disputes which had arisen respecting the relative rights and obligations of the parties interested in the project, — the court’s jurisdiction being invoked because of the involution of the construction and application of the Carey Act, c. 301, § 4, 28…