Twohy Bros. v. Ochoco Irrigation District

The legal status of an irrigation district has been brought in question in this controversy. An irrigation district organized under the Irrigation District Law of this state is a municipal corporation, its. property public property, and its officers public officers, elected by the legal voters of the irrigation district, with duties and powers fixed and limited by the law of their creation. Such a district “is cheated for a public purpose and it rests in the discretion of the legislature when to create it and with what powers to endow it.” Fallbrook Irrigation Dist. v. Bradley, 164 U. S. 112…