North Sterling Irrigation District v. Knifton

In the trial court defendants in error were plaintiffs and plaintiffs in error were defendants. We will refer to them by name, or as they appeared in the trial court; the North Sterling Irrigation District will be referred to as the “District.”

Involved in this action is the interpretation of a “Right of Way Deed” executed in August 1909 by John DeSutto to the District covering a “strip of ground” in the East half of the East half of Section 22, Township 8 N. R. 53 W. Logan County, Colorado. The consideration for this deed was sixty dollars and it is admitted that the instrument was prepared…