Pasco Reclamation Co. v. Cox

Citations

• 70 Wash. 549
• 127 P. 107
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1081

Syllabus

<p>Waters and Water Courses — Irrigation—Contract for Water— Indefiniteness — Meeting of Minds. A contract whereby the defendant intended to purchase from plaintiff a water right for irrigating ten acres of land is so indefinite and uncertain that it cannot be enforced, where the contract contemplated irrigation works for irrigating 2,500 acres of land, but the owners of only 500 acres signed up, agreeing to take the number of acre water rights set opposite their names, for the purpose of irrigating the 2,500 acres “pro rata,” with water rights in “all essential respects” similar to a “blank form” attached, originally prepared for the owners of all the lands, the terms of the two contracts being irreconcilable, and there being no way to determine in what “essential respects” they should be read together; since there was no meeting of minds thereon.</p>