Reorganized Catlin Consolidated Canal Co. v. Hinderlider

A DEMURRER to the amended complaint of plaintiff in error was sustained, it elected to stand, its bill was dismissed and it brings error.

The following are the facts necessary to an understanding of the situation: The plaintiff in error, the Las Animas Consolidated Canal Company, and the Fort Lyon Canal Company, which we shall call the Catlin Company, the Las Animas Company and the Fort Lyon Company respectively, own ditches with headgates in the Arkansas river. The Catlin has the upper, the Las Animas Company the lower, about thirty miles below, and the Fort Lyon is about half way between…