Beckham v. Ward County Irr. Dist. No. 1

E. J. Beckham, appellant, brought this suit against appellee, Ward County irrigation district No. 1, and against Ward County irrigation district No. 3 (but subsequently dismissed as to district No. 3), to recover damages to his growing crop of cotton, alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the failure of appellee district No. 1 to maintain a certain flume constructed over the main line canal of appellee district No. 1.

Appellant, having purchased the B. T. Biggs lands lying on either side of the canal over which the flume was to be constructed and maintained, bases his suit upon a…