If the owner or owners of lands, where a new ditch for an acequia is to be made, should ask an exorbitant price as a compensation therefor, which shall not be satisfactory to the owner or owners of such acequia, it shall be the duty of the probate judge of the county in which it may occur, to appoint three skillful men of well-known honesty, to make an appraisement thereof and fix the compensation.
History: Laws 1874, ch. 10, § 2; C.L. 1884, § 18; C.L. 1897, § 24; Laws 1903, ch. 44, § 3; Code 1915, § 5738; C.S. 1929, § 151-408; 1941 Comp., § 77-1402; 1953 Comp., § 75-14-2.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For appraisal of land taken upon reconstruction of ditch, see 73-2-57 to 73-2-62 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 26 Am. Jur. 2d Eminent Domain §§ 77, 202, 206.
Exercise of eminent domain by private owner for purpose of irrigating land, 9 A.L.R. 583, 27 A.L.R. 519.
Eminent domain for irrigation, combination of public and private uses or purposes, 53 A.L.R. 19.
28 C.J.S. Drains § 79 et seq.; 29A C.J.S. Eminent Domain § 286.
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