Missoula Light & Water Co. v. Hughes

This is a controversy that primarily involves the right to the use of 65 inches of water appropriated out of Rattlesnake Creek in Missoula county and diverted through the Fredline ditch. The plaintiff is a public utility, having supplied water to the city of Missoula for domestic and municipal purposes for more than half a century, and also supplies water to contracting parties for the irrigation of arid lands. A writ of injunction is prayed for protecting the right awarded the plaintiff in a former action.

The defendants and intervener are engaged in truck and fruit farming in the suburbs of…