McGinness v. Stanfield

Citations

• 6 Idaho 372
• 55 P. 1020
• 1898 Ida. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Water Sights — Appropriation op Water — Jurisdiction op Courts.— In an action to settle the water rights of various parties upon a -«tream, the district court, after establishing the priorities of the Various appropriators, proceeded to decree the times and the quantity which each appropriator was permitted to use of such waters; held, error, it not being the province of the court to dictate how or when the right acquired by the appropriator should be exercised, so long as such use was within the limits of his appropriation.</p> <p>Verbal Contract — Admissibility in Evidence. — Under the statutes of Idaho, a verbal contract for the sale or transfer of real estate is not admissible in evidence against a stranger to such contract.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>