Rascoe v. Town of Farmington

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant as an appellant before us seeks a review and reversal of a judgment of the district court of San Juan County awarding damages against it as a municipality for negligently depriving him of water for the irrigation of certain crops on his land during the growing season of 1954.

The plaintiff at all times material hereto was the owner of a tract of land in the Town of Farmington on which he had an orchard, a small tract of alfalfa and a garden. It was irrigated by water received through a lateral from the Independent Irrigation Ditch. The plaintiff charged in his…