Wichita County Water Improvement Dist. No. 1 v. Pearce

CONNER, Chief Justice.

In 1924 a number of enterprising and forward-looking citizens of Wichita Falls organized, in accord with the terms of title 128, Rev. Civ. Statutes of 1925, what is known as “Water Improvement District No. 1,” and for the purpose of furnishing water for irrigation to lands within its district constructed two large dams on the Wichita river, one known as Lake Kemp and the other as Diversion Lake. From the latter lake the district constructed an irrigation ditch extending in an easterly direction on the north side of the river along the foothills or higher ground of the…