Birdwood Irrigation District v. Brodbeck

This is an action to foreclose a tax sale certificate, owned by plaintiff irrigation district, and issued for delinquent irrigation taxes. Defendants denied that the land could be irrigated, because of natural causes, and therefore was not subject to irrigation taxes within the district. The decree found generally for the plaintiff, and defendants appealed.

The plaintiff filed a petition alleging that it is a public corporation, organized under the provisions of chapter 46, R. S. 1943, as the Birdwood Canal, for the operation of an irrigation canal to furnish irrigation water for the land in…