Thornton v. Kingrey

More than ten years before this action was begun, a lateral was constructed from Ihe irrigation ditch of the Gering irrigation district, about 2% miles to the village of Gering, and thence through the principal streets of the village. A few years thereafter the plaintiff pufchased a quarter section of land within the limits of the village. *632When this lateral was constructed, the plaintiff’s grantor, who was then the owner of this land, began irrigating the land from the lateral, and the plaintiff has continued so using the water until the village authorities undertook to prevent him from…