Water Users Assn. v. Bldg. Assn.

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 Reservoir, owned…