Applegate v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District

This is a suit for damage to plaintiff’s land and leasehold, caused by seepage from the intake canal and reservoir of the defendant. Judgment was for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.

The plaintiff owns and is in possession of 312 acres of land along the South Platte river in Lincoln county. He also is the tenant of land adjacent to his fee title land. This land has a good top soil over sand and gravel, is sub-irrigated by the natural waters that flow under the land, and in its natural state produced abundant crops.

*281The defendant is a district organized under the provisions of Senate File No.…