Matagorda Canal Co. v. Styles

This is an application to this court for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, who is judge of the district court of Brazoria county, to proceed to trial and judgment in a suit in said district court brought by the relator against the Markham Irrigation Company, filed in No vember, 1917. The nature of the suit and the facts upon which relator asks for a writ of mandamus are stated in the application as follows:

“(a) The Matagorda Canal Company averred: That it was the owner of water rights by statutory appropriation which authorized it to take water from the Colorado river for the…