Jones v. Big Lost River Irrigation District

DONALDSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a final judgment entered against the appellants (plaintiffs) in an action for damages to appellants’ crops in 1959 based upon the alleged failure of the respondent (defendant) irrigation district to deliver water to the appellants. The action was tried to the court sitting without a jury.

The appellants’ property in question is located entirely outside the boundary of the respondent irrigation district, lying some four to five miles to the south. The property is located at the end of the Arco Canal. The Arco Canal is about five miles long and about…