Legal Opinion
Yuma County Water Users' Assn. v. Schlecht
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 7, 1923No. 268PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
The Yuma County Water Users’ Association is a corporation organized primarily to represent the settlers on the Yuma Irrigation Project in Arizona in their dealings with the Government. The other appellants are shareholders and owners of tracts of land under the project.
On April 8, 1904, the Secretary of the Interior received the report of a board of consulting engineers, made at his request, giving alternative estimates of the cost of the project, and recommending that $3,000,000 be set aside for construction. This report was followed by a letter from the Director of the Geological Survey,…
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