Gasser v. Garden Water Co.

PORTER, Chief Justice.

In the year 1897 a number of land owners in Idaho acquired a permit from the State of Wyoming to divert water from Darby Creek in Wyoming for use for irrigation and milling purposes upon certain lands in Idaho. These lands are situated in what is now Teton County. The permit was issued in the name of Wyoming and Darby Bench Canal Company. In 1910 title to this water was by shit quieted in the canal company. Subsequently, in order to provide a better system of distribution to its stockholders, the respondent was organized and acquired all the rights of the Wyoming and…