Hayois v. Salt River Valley Canal Co.

This was an action brought by the appellee corporation against E. Hayois and seventeen other defend*288ants, owning lands lying under the Salt River Yalley Canal, in Maricopa County, to enjoin and restrain said defendants from entering upon said canal, interfering with the headgates therein, or in any manner obstructing the appellee in the operation and management of its said canal and headgates. The complaint set forth by formal averments the ownership and possession of said canal in the plaintiff; that said canal was an irrigating ditch, used and occupied by the plaintiff for the sole purpose…