Mitchell Drainage District v. Farmers Irrigation District

Lightner, District Judge.

Injunction to prevent defendant from permitting the waters from , Wet Spottedtail Draw to pass through its irrigation canal and into plaintiff’s drainage district. The finding was for defendant and plaintiff has appealed.

The appellant will be referred to in this opinion as plaintiff, and the appellees, who are the irrigation district and its officers, as defendant. The controversy pertains to water conditions in and about Mitchell in Scotts Bluff county.

For many years defendant company has intercepted the water from Wet Spottedtail Draw and carried it eastward where…