Redwater Land & Canal Co. v. Reed
South Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Butte County. Hon. Revi Mo Gee, Judge. Action by Redwater Rand & Canal Company against D. T. Reed and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHaney, J.
This is a controversy concerning the use of water for irrigation from Redwater river, in Butte county, between the plaintiff as an appropriator and the defendants as riparian proprietors. Were the flow of water in Redwater river as ’ copious a-s the flow of redundant language in appellant’s abstract and .briefs, probably this litigation would not have arisen. Certainly less reason would have-existed for damming the stream.Perhaps there is in all water-right cases some mysterious relation between the quantity of water and the quantity of language- — a law of supply and demand which requires…
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