Geertson v. Barrack

Citations

• 3 Idaho 344
• 29 P. 42
• 1892 Ida. LEXIS 7

Syllabus

<p>Water Eights — Appropriation—Priority op Eight — Prior Appropriator. — 1. Tbe prior appropriator oí water for irrigation purposes is entitled to tbe water so appropriated necessary to the irrigation of his land as against subsequent appropriators.</p> <p>Amount op Appropriation, How Determined. — 2. The court must determine the date and amount of each appropriation, and from these facts determine the priority of right, as between the parties, as declared by section 3159 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho, 1887, to wit, as between appropriators the one first in time is the first in right.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>