IDE v. UNITED STATES

No. 37.

263 U.S. 497 (1924)

IDE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. D.A. Haggard and Mr. Ray E. Lee, with whom Mr. David J. Howell, Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, and Mr. M.A. Rattigan were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. W.W. Dyar, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the United States to enjoin threatened interference with changes which it is making in a natural ravine, called Bitter Creek, in the course of completing and perfecting an irrigation system known as the Shoshone Project. The changes consist in so straightening, widening and deepening the ravine that it may be utilized as a ditch to collect seepage from project irrigation and to carry the...

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