Scheer v. Moody

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

These ten suits present like issues and are tried virtually as one. The pleadings are far from models, the answers scandalously verbose, but from them, opening statements, course of the trial, evidence, and arguments, the issues tried are as follows :

Plaintiffs are successors of allottees of lands of the Flathead Indian Reservation, to irrigate them claim private ditches and water rights, and also right to water from said project free from any its cost of construction. Defendant is manager of said project, denies the private rights, but concedes that of water from the…