Pecos County Water Control & Improvement District No. 1 v. Williams

FRASER, Justice.

The plaintiff below is appellant here and the parties will hereinafter be described as they were in the trial court, appellees having been defendants and appellant having been plaintiff.

The controversy arose by virtue of the fact that plaintiff claims and alleges that the properties serviced'by it have used and enjoyed the waters of Comanche Springs for some ninety years, and that prior to-the institution of this lawsuit about 1951 the defendants, owners of land south and west of said springs, drilled various water wells and began pumping them with mechanical pumps, and that…