Covington v. Becker
Nevada Supreme Court
■ Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Lander County. This was an action for an injunction brought by John Covington, George M. Dyer, A. E. Kerchival, and G. A. McCracken, against John Becker, E. Lamb, and a large number of others, to restrain them from diverting the waters of Reese River at a point about fifteen miles south of Jacobsville.
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■ Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Lander County. This was an action for an injunction brought by John Covington, George M. Dyer, A. E. Kerchival, and G. A. McCracken, against John Becker, E. Lamb, and a large number of others, to restrain them from diverting the waters of Reese River at a point about fifteen miles south of Jacobsville. It appears that the plaintiffs possessed lands through which the river flowed, and used its waters for agricultural purposes. The defendants respectively possessed lands further up the river, and it is alleged that after the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
WHITMAN, J.:
This ease was originally appealed by Covington et als., plaintiffs, in the Court below, and one of the defendants named Lamb. The former have dismissed their appeal, and Lamb is alone before this Court.
The assignments of error are numerous, but all, with the exception of the fourth, are addressed to the specification of error in the findings and judgment on matters of evidence. The fourth assignment referred to above is as follows:
“ That these defendants are riparian proprietors on Reese River above the land of plaintiffs, and are entitled to use the water of the…
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