Blaine County Canal Co. v. Hansen

Respondent, a Carey Act operating company, sued appellant in quantum meruit for the maintenance charge for the delivery of water for the irrigation season of 1927 on the basis of ninety-five cents an acre. The appellant contested the action on two grounds, first, that respondent had no right to bring the action because, under the original contract between appellant and the construction company, maintenance charges were limited to fifty cents an acre, and the construction company had never turned the project over to the operating company; and secondly, that if it had, the remedy for the…