Hillcrest Irrigation District v. Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District

Appellant, Hillcrest Irrigation District, was organized in 1912 by E. L. Clark and associates. Clark thereafter purchased certain water rights from the Boise River from settlers under the Pioneer Dixie and American Ditch *406Association canals, the same being parts of what is known in the Boise Valley as the Stewart Decree, rights 8, 45 and 96. The transfer- covered 1077 inches of the natural flow of the Boise River. Deeds were procured from both the canal and land owners and the water rights were thereupon conveyed to the district. The point of diversion of these water rights was. below the head…