 | Law - 1882 - 1254 pages
...country differing widely from our own. The first appropriator of water thereon to beneficial uses "does, in natural justice, acquire a better right to its use and enjoyment than others" who have made no appropriation thereof, even though such others be the grantee of the State or of the Government.... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1078 pages
...who first connects his own labor with property thus situated and open to general exploration, does, in natural justice, acquire a better right to its use and enjoyment than others who .have not given such labor. So the miners on the public lands throughout the Pacific states and territories... | |
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And he who first connects his own labor with property thus situated and open to general exploration does, in natural justice, acquire a better right to its use and enjoyment than others who have not given such labor. 
