State v. Delaware-Hickman Ditch Co.

The Delaware-Hickman Ditch Company, of Dundy county* hereinafter called the company, and its officers were cited under section 8428, Comp. St. 1922, to appear at Bridge-' port, before the department of public works, there to show cause why its appropriation for a certain quantity of water for irrigation purposes from the Republican river, in Dundy county, Nebraska, should not be canceled and forfeited, on the alleged ground of nonuser.

Defendants own and occupy 1,280 acres of land under the ditch, and in their joint answer it is alleged, in sub*807stance, that for many years they used the water…