Ledingham v. Farmers Irrigation District

This is an action by William Ledingham, plaintiff, to recover from the Farmers Irrigation District, defendant, $3,500 in damages to growing crops by its failure to deliver to him from the North Platte river, through its canal, the quantity of irrigating water to which he was entitled during July, August and September, 1934, under his appropriation and vested contract right.

In an answer to the petition defendant denied the allegations on which plaintiff’s claim for damages is based and pleaded failure of plaintiff to give in writing statutory notice essential to a recovery for such alleged…