Beaty v. Board of County Commissioners

THE parties appear here relatively as in the lower court and we will refer to them as plaintiff and defendant. The facts are stipulated.

During the years 1927 to 1932, inclusive, the period involved in this suit, plaintiff owned 458 acres of land in Otero county, Colorado, all lying under the canal owned by the Reorganized Catlin Consolidated Canal Company, a mutual ditch company. For the irrigation of this land the plaintiff owned 477.44 shares of the stock of the ditch company. By virtue of the ownership of this stock she was entitled to draw her pro rata part of the water flowing in the…