Lesamiz v. Whitestone Reclamation District

— Priorto 1926, the Whitestone reclamation district had become heavily bonded. It had also encountered a shortage of water, owing to the failure of one of its reservoirs to hold water, which made it unable to furnish water to a large body of land, and consequently a large acreage was eliminated from the district. Prior to that elimination, the owners had paid one or more assessments for bond interest. The district felt that, inasmuch as the lands eliminated had received no benefits whatever, it would be but fair to refund to such owners the assessments they had paid for interest on the bonds.…