Legal Opinion
Gill v. Hudspeth County Conservation & Reclamation Dist. No. 1
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 21, 1935No. 3379PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINS, Justice.
This is a suit by the Hudspeth County Conservation & Reclamation District No. 1, and others owning lands within said district, against Dave Gill.
Gill owns 2,240 acres of land in Hud-speth county riparian to the Rio Grande river; 800 acres thereof are in cultivation by him. Hudspeth county is in the arid region where irrigation is essential to grow crops. The boundaries of the Conservation & Reclamation District and lands owned by the other plaintiffs are in the Rio -Grande Valley some distance up the river from Gill's land.
Some years prior to the bringing of the suit, Gill…
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