Court Opinion

ID: 9539767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:09:49.258434+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:19.099909
License: Public Domain

WADE, Chief Justice
(concurring).
I concur with the prevailing opinion of Mr. Justice McDONOUGH and think it meets the problems presented by this case. However, I also agree with Mr. Justice CROCKETT that under the statutes involved here the charge must be “reasonable” and “equitable” and under some situations, it would not be either reasonable or equitable to require a person who used only a small portion of a large irrigation system to pay the proportionate share of the operation of the entire irrigation system which his water which entered the system bears to all the water which was used in the system. However, I do not find any unreasonable or inequitable assessment here.