Markham IRR. Co. v. Brown

The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in this case is reported in 286 S. W. 574.

The transaction out of which grew this lawsuit had its beginning in the month of January, 1917. The plaintiff in error, an irrigation corporation doing business with the rice farmers in Matagorda county and securing its water supply from the Colorado river, on the west side of which the lands it proposed to irrigate are located, filed this suit against the defendant in error on October 2, 1917, alleging that it had. a contract with the defendant in error to use its best efforts to furnish the latter with water…