42-320. Abandonment of right-of-way or site.
42-320
42-320. Abandonment of right-of-way or site.If any person, association or corporation having acquired right of wayor site for any canal, ditch, conduit, reservoir or other works fordiverting, collecting, conveying, storing or supplying water for industrialuses shall abandon such works, or cease for a period of two years tooccupy, utilize and operate the same for the purposes for which such rightof way or site was obtained, without due and sufficient cause and reasonfor such cessation of use, such right of way or site shall cease, and suchperson, association or corporation shall be deemed to have wholly abandonedthe same, and all right, title and interest in and to the lands theretoforeso occupied and used shall revert to and vest in the owners at the time ofsuch reversion of the several tracts and parcels of land of which the landsembraced in such right of way or site formerly constituted a part.
History: L. 1891, ch. 133, art. 3, § 5; May 20; R.S. 1923, 42-320.