Billings Bench Water Ass'n v. Yellowstone County

From the allegations of plaintiff’s amended complaint it appears that the plaintiff is a Montana corporation, and that it owns and operates a main irrigation canal some twenty miles in length, together with lateral ditches, headgates and other devices required for the irrigation and reclamation of between 23,000 and 24,000 acres of land in Yellowstone county. The ■ main canal is supplied with water from the Yellowstone River, taken out southerly from the town of Laurel, running thence in a northeasterly direction toward and past the city of Billings. The stockholders of the plaintiff…