State Ex Rel. Public Service Commission v. District Court

In January, 1938, a complaint was filed with the Public Service Commission by 26 farmers, in which they alleged that they are the owners of irrigable lands in the Madison River Valley; that the Montana Power Company, engaged in producing, delivering and furnishing electricity to its consumers for profit, in the year 1937 and for several years prior thereto, without the consent of the complainants impounded and stored the waters of the natural flow of the Madison Biver by means of dams during the irrigating season and deprived complainants of waters to which they were entitled for irrigating…