Cabell v. Fed. Land Bank of Spokane

On March 12,1908, one Chas. H. Gardiner, being the owner of the SW1^ of section 34, T. 4 N., R. 28 E. W. M., entered into a contract in writing with the Hinkle Ditch Company, whereby he purchased the perpetual right to the use of eighty-one miners’ inches of water, measured under six-inch pressure, for irrigation purposes. The contract, in so far as its provisions are pertinent to the present discussion, reads as follows:

“KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the HINKLE DITCH CO., a corporation * * *, first party, in consideration of $810 to it paid by Chas. H. Gardiner of Hermiston, Oregon…