Opportunity Christian Church v. Washington Water Power Co.

— It is our opinion that the appellants are not in position to maintain this action.

There is certain fertile land in the Spokane valley which is quite valueless without irrigation. Water can be had only from wells. About 1905, three men owned some three thousand acres of this land, and desired to develop and sell it. They organized two corporations; one called Modern Irrigation & Land Company, and the other, Modern Electric Water Company. To the land company they conveyed the land they owned. Thereafter a contract was entered into between them and the two corporations thus formed. It required…