Colorado Land & Water Co. v. Adams

This was a suit brought for the specific performance of a contract. On the 28th day of January, 1890, appellant contemplated and intended to construct an extensive canal for irrigating purposes; the water to be disposed of by the sale of perpetual water rights, each for eighty acres of land. Appellee — being the owner of land which would be under the ditch, and desirous to secure water — on the date mentioned entered into a contract with appellant for the purchase of a right; taking the agreement, in parol, of appellant, to execute and deliver a deed at some future time, and executing and…