Columbia Trust Co. v. Eikelberger

This is an action by respondent Columbia Trust Company to foreclose the lien of a water contract and supplementary agreement, for the balance alleged to be due from appellant upon the purchase price of the water right. The cause was tried to the court without a jury and judgment rendered in favor of respondent, from which judgment this appeal is taken.

The facts involved, about which there is no serious conflict, are in brief as follows:

In 1910 the state of Idaho secured the segregation under the Carey Act of certain public land of the United States in what is now Butte county. In June, 1910,…