Platt v. City of Rapid City

This is an action by which plaintiff, Maud M. Platt, seeks to recover damages for the diversion and loss of water with which to irrigate her lands. Plaintiff owns a farm lying west of Rapid City along the course of Lime or Limestone Creek. A portion of this land had been under irrigation from Lime Creek, as shown by the evidence, from 1882 to about 1930. It appears from the evidence that in 1930 the City of Rapid City purchased the Merrill Springs and diverted the water therefrom to the city mains by constructing a collecting line to intercept the flow of smaller springs feeding the stream.…