Hall v. Eagle Rock & Willow Creek Water Co.
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Bingham County. The defendant company was organized in Idaho in 1884, and is in form a corporation; that is to say, it is'one of a large class of companies existing in southern Idaho, where agricultural lands are artificially irrigated, organized not for profit, but for the purpose of controlling and distributing water for irrigation purposes.
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APPEAL from District Court, Bingham County. The defendant company was organized in Idaho in 1884, and is in form a corporation; that is to say, it is'one of a large class of companies existing in southern Idaho, where agricultural lands are artificially irrigated, organized not for profit, but for the purpose of controlling and distributing water for irrigation purposes. In such corporations the stockholders are farmers living along the line of the canal who never expect to receive any dividend, but by virtue of their stock are entitled to the use of a fixed amount of the water controlled by…
1Opinion of the CourtHtjston, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiff to restrain the defendant corporation from selling the shares of said plaintiff in said corporation for the purpose of paying-assessments levied on said shares. Trial was had before the district court without a jury, and judgment rendered in accordance with prayer of the plaintiff’s complaint, perpetually enjoining defendant corporation from selling, or in any manner disposing of, the stock of plaintiff in said corporation in payment of any assessment made thereon, the par value of which stock has been fully paid. From this judgment and decree this…
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