42 P. 483 | Ariz. | 1895
The plaintiffs, who are the appellees here, are the prior appropriators and users, fis between themselves and appellants, of certain water of the Salt River, and conduct their water through what is known as the “Tempe 'Canal” to the various points of use. Their appropriation and use of said water are for the purposes of irrigation and turning a gristmill known as “Hayden’s Mill.” Appellants, having appropriated and otherwise secured the use of water from the river subsequent to the appropriation of appellees, ■at a point in the river several miles above the point of diversion of appellees, for the purpose, among other things, of ■“creating, generating, and perpetuating, for public and private use, a water-power of not less than eight hundred horsepower,” now seek to mingle the water of appellees with their own, and run it from the river through their canal, over a precipice having a fall of forty or fifty feet, where the power plant is located, and deliver it back to appellees at a
The judgment of the lower court is reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial.
Hawkins, J., concurs.
Bouse, J., concurs in the result.