Scott's Bluff County v. Tri-State Land Co.

This was an action to recover the cost of the construction of a bridge bnilt by the county of Scott’s Bluff over and across an irrigation ditch of the defendant. The defendant had judgment, and the county has appealed.

It appears that during the years 1906 and 1907 the defendant was the owner of the northeast quarter of section 7, and the northwest quarter of section 8, in township 22 north of range 54 west, in said county; that during said years it constructed its irrigation canal over and across the section line between sections 7 and 8 aforesaid, about 20 rods south of the north line of…