Shasta View Irrigation District v. Amoco Chemicals Corp.

*154LEESON, J.

This case is before the court on certified questions of Oregon law from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit under ORS 28.200 et seq. and ORAP 12.20. We take the following facts from the Ninth Circuit’s certification order:

“Shasta View Irrigation District (‘Shasta’) was organized and formed on December 5,1917, pursuant to Chapter 357 of the Oregon Laws of 1917, now Chapter 545 of the Oregon Revised Statutes. There are approximately fifty-six individual members of Shasta. These members own irrigable land within the geographic boundaries of Shasta, and farm or…