Lingle Water Users' Ass'n v. Occidental Building & Loan Ass'n

Blume, Justice.

The Lingle Water Users Association is a corporation of this state, organized in 1916 for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, furnishing and distributing an adequate supply of water for irrigation to its share-holders. The lands of most of these share-holders were, it seems, originally reclaimed under the so-called Carey Act, (43 U. S. C. A., Sec. 641 et seq.) and appurtenant thereto was a ditch right in what is now called the Interstate Canal. The waters originally appropriated were, apparently, not sufficient. An additional supply was able to be procured from the Pathfinder…