Colorado Canal Co. v. McFarland & Southwell

This is a suit by the Colorado Canal Company, a corporation, against McFarland Southwell, to recover the value of 830 1/2 sacks of rice alleged to be due under a contract for furnishing water by plaintiff to defendants to water their rice crop on 445.26 acres of land, at the rate of two sacks of rice weighing not less than one hundred and eighty pounds to each acre of land. The rice was alleged to be of the value of $1661, and plaintiff also sued for ten percent on said amount as attorney's fees under the contract.

The contract sued on, and which was made an exhibit to the petition, contained…