Swanger v. Porter

Action in mandamus to compel the respondents to furnish the relator, who will hereafter be called the plaintiff, water for irrigation. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendants have appealed.

It appears that in the year 1891 the defendant, the Court House Rock Irrigation Company of Cheyenne *765county, was incorporated for the purpose of constructing and maintaining an irrigation ditch and appropriating the water of Pumpkin Seed creek with which to irrigate the lands of the incorporators,, and for other purposes; that in 1893 the articles of incorporation were amended, and it was therein…