[Preference right for irrigation; obstruction.]

No inhabitant of this state shall have the right to construct any building of the impediment of the irrigation of lands or fields, such as mills or any other property that may obstruct the course of the water; as the irrigation of the fields should be preferable to all others. History: Laws 1851-1852, p. 189, § 2; C.L. 1865, ch. 1, § 2; C.L. 1884, § 1; C.L. 1897, § 1; Code 1915, § 5734; C.S. 1929, § 151-404; 1941 Comp., § 77-1404; 1953 Comp., § 75-14-4.