Supreme Court of the United States April 13, 1925, 135 (Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District v. Bond)

Me. Justice Sutherland

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant is an irrigation district organized as a public corporation under the laws of Idaho. In 1915, its supply of water being insufficient to irrigate the lands of all its members, it entered into a contract with the United States, at that time engaged in the construction of the Boise irrigation project, for wafer to irrigate the