McCord v. Fastening Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that mutual ditch companies are “organized solely for the convenience of [their] members in the management of the irrigation and reservoir systems”
• “Mutual ditch companies ... [are] formed expressly for the purpose of furnishing water to shareholders, not for profit or hire.”
• while “naked title” to water rights may be in name of mutual ditch company, “water rights are actually owned by the farmers who are served thereby”
• those persons falling within provisions of C.R.C.P. 19(a) should be joined if feasible
• “The relationship between the mutual ditch corporation and its shareholders arises out of contract, implied in a subscription for stock and construed by the provisions of a charter or articles of incorporation.”
• mutual ditch company shareholders indispensable parties in condemnation proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).