State ex rel. Golden Valley Irrigation Co. v. Superior Court

Citations

• 67 Wash. 556
• 122 P. 19
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1211

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Title and Subjects — Amendatory Acts. The title “an act to amend an act approved November 13, 1873, entitled an act to provide for the formation of corporations” is sufficient and broad enough to include a provision conferring the right of eminent domain on corporations organized for certain purposes.</p> <p>Eminent Domain — Public Use — Irrigation. The use of waters for irrigation is a public use, under Const., art. 21, § 1, providing that “the use of the waters of this state for irrigation . . . shall be deemed a public use.”</p> <p>Eminent Domain — Irrigation—“Corporate Purposes” — Reservoirs. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 9510, providing that corporations organized for the purpose of erecting and maintaining flumes or aqueducts to convey water for . . . irrigation . . . shall have the same right to appropriate lands for necessary corporate purposes as other corporations and to taire any water not otherwise legally appropriated, an irrigation company may condemn land for a reservoir site, that being a “necessary corporate purpóse” within the act, where it is necessary to store water in order to accomplish irrigation (Parker, Chadwick, and Fullerton, JJ., dissenting).</p>