Bowman v. Bowman

This is a suit to determine an adverse claim to the use of water, to enjoin defendants from interfering with an irrigating ditch, and to recover damages for an alleged trespass. Plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of two *280hundred acres of land in Union County, and that the defendants own one hundred and sixty acres adjoining thereto on the south, through which tracts Big Creek flows in a southerly direction; that in 1869 his grantor diverted five hundred inches of water, miners’ measure, from the east side of said creek, and in 1872 two hundred and fifty inches, miners’ measure, from the…