POSEY v. DOVE

No. 5372.

257 P.2d 541 (1953)

57 N.M. 200

POSEY et al. v. DOVE et al.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied June 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Shipley, Alamogordo, for appellants.

Mechem & Mechem, Las Cruces, for appellees.


FOWLER, District Judge.

The plaintiffs (appellants) sued to enjoin the defendants (appellees) from maintaining a dam or obstruction across the Penasco river which backed up and impounded the river waters and caused them to flood some two or three acres of the plaintiffs' land during such times as the defendants were using the structure to raise the waters to a height sufficient to allow it to flow into the intake of the ditch then being used to convey the water for...

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