New Mexico Products Co. v. New Mexico Power Co.

HUDSPETH, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by New Mexico Products Company, appellant here, against the New Mexico Power Company and city of Santa Fe, appellees, because of the obstruction of the flow and appropriation of waters of Santa Fe creek which appellant and its predecessors in title had put to beneficial use since the year 1885 in the irrigation of 80 acres of land..

The facts alleged in the amended complaint.or stipulated in so far as are necessary to be stated follow: That between the years 1603 and 1614 a Spanish settlement was established on the site now occupied by…