Harsin v. Pioneer Irrigation District

The plaintiff is owner of twenty acres of agricultural land within the Pioneer Irrigation District, and is entitled to water for its irrigation from what is known and designated as the Phyllis canal of that district, which water is diverted from this canal through certain laterals privately owned by plaintiff. Water for all of the farm, except approximately five acres, which is too high to be irrigated by gravity, is obtained through diversion works and a headgate in the side of the canal. For many years water for this high land was procured by means of a water-wheel, and through a different…