Co-Operative Vineyards Co. v. Ft. Stockton Irrigated Lands Co.

This suit was brought by the Co-operative Vineyards Company against the Ft. Stockton Irrigated Lands Company to recover damages for injuries to its 300-acre vineyard occasioned by seepage' and overflow from defendant’s irrigation canal.

Plaintiff alleged: That the defendant is a private corporation, duly incorporated under the laws of Texas, and also an irrigation public service corporation, with powers of eminent domain, engaged in carrying water through its ditches from Comanche creek for distribution upon different lands, including the 300-acre tract described, which plaintiff alleges it…