Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Shurtliff

This action was originally commenced by the plaintiff, hereinafter called “respondent,” against Vincent Shurtliff and his wife Mary E. Shurtliff, hereinafter called “appellants,” to restrain them from interfering with the water in a certain ditch. The complaint was afterwards amended, and all the water users (claiming water rights in, four certain ditches) were made parties to the action. All claimants thus came into court, and each one, including the appellants, set forth his claim to the use of water and the amount thereof in the several ditches aforesaid. It developed at the trial —…