Boquillas Land & Cattle Co. v. Curtis
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE TERRITORY OP ARIZONA. The facts are stated in the opinion. Riparian rights once vested are property rights and cannot be taken away except by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Long on Irrigation, § 12; Black’s Pomeroy on Water Rights, § 9; Lux v. Hoggin, 69 California, 255; Sturr v. Beck, 133 U. S. 541; 1 Famham on Water Rights, 282; Éenton v. Johncox, 17 Washington, 277; S. C., 39 L. R. A. 107; 61 Am.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE TERRITORY OP ARIZONA. The facts are stated in the opinion. Riparian rights once vested are property rights and cannot be taken away except by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Long on Irrigation, § 12; Black’s Pomeroy on Water Rights, § 9; Lux v. Hoggin, 69 California, 255; Sturr v. Beck, 133 U. S. 541; 1 Famham on Water Rights, 282; Éenton v. Johncox, 17 Washington, 277; S. C., 39 L. R. A. 107; 61 Am. St. Rep. 912; Clark v. Cambridge &c. Co., 45 Nebraska, 798; /S. C., 64 N. W. Rep. 239; Yates v. Milwaukee, 10 Wall. 497; Potomac Steamboat Co. v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mk. Justice Holmes
delivered the opinion of the court;
This is a bill in equity brought by the appellant to prevent the defendants from withdrawing water from the San Pedro River and from building for that purpose a dam and ditch upon and through the plaintiff’s land. The plaintiff owns a tract extending on both- sides of the river for about fourteen and one-half miles and reaching back from the river for a mile and one-eighth on each side. It derives its title from a grant of the State of Sonora in 1833, confirmed by a decree of the Court of Private Land Claims on February 14, 1899, and a…
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