Central Irrigation District v. Gering Irrigation District

This is a suit in equity commenced by the Central Irrigation District, plaintiff, for a perpetual injunction preventing the Gering Irrigation District, Frank Schenbeck and Olive H. Schenbeck, defendants, from draining water from a marsh by means of a ditch into plaintiff’s irrigation canal, called the “Central canal.”

The Schenbecks own a quarter section of land in Scotts Bluff county in Gering Irrigation District between the “Gering canal” and the Central canal. The drainage ditch of which complaint is made varies in width from one to two feet, is about a foot deep, extends northward 950 feet…