Havre Irrigation Co. v. Majerus

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

This is an appeal from a decree in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants rendered by the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Hill.

The case involves the priority of water rights on Beaver Creek, a stream rising in the Bear Paw Mountains in Hill County, Montana.

All of the water rights which plaintiff claims were appropri*412ated and acquired by 1904. Tbe construction of a diversion dam in Beaver Creek and of a main canal to carry the water to tbe lands to be irrigated was commenced by its…