Magee v. Whitacre

On the Merits

George L. Sanford, for Appellants. Richard R. Hanna and W. M. Kearney, for Respondents. W. M. Kearney and Robert Taylor Adams, for Intervening Respondent. Roy W. Stoddard, Charles M. Merrill, and A. L. Haight, Amici Curiae.

OPINION

By the Court,

Orr, J.:

Appellants instituted an action in the First judicial district court, in and for Lyon County, asking an injunction forbidding defendant Lothrop, who was at the time county treasurer and ex officio tax receiver of Lyon County, from selling, on demand of the Walker river irrigation district, certain parcels of land situate therein, for…