Arizona Supreme Court March 23, 1901, Civil No. 744 (Biggs v. Utah Irrigating Ditch Co.)

SLOAN, J.

The essential facts in this cause which appear from the record are as follows: In the year 1877, twenty-four families emigrated from Utah, and settled upon twenty-five quarter-sections of public land, lying on the south side of the Salt Eiver, near what is now known as the “Village of Mesa,” in Maricopa County.