Village of Lapwai v. Alligier

GIVENS, Justice.

Appellant, a municipal corporation, brought suit in eminent domain to secure the gravity water system installed and in operation for some thirty-five years and belonging to respondents, for use by the Village as a municipal water plant. The system’s water supply is a spring flowing constantly sixty gallons per minute with a 12-inch concrete pipe tunneled in twelve or fourteen feet, housed in a concrete structure 4x7x13 feet. No other adjacent adequate springs exist. From the spring 6,840 feet of 2¡4 inch asphalt-treated pipe extend, buried in an eight-foot easement under lease…