Nicoloff v. Bloom Land & Cattle Co.

As owner of certain lands in Las Animas county, the Bloom Land and Cattle Company brought suit to restrain one Nicoloff from interfering with, intercepting, or diverting certain waters described as “flood waters, waste waters, spring waters, seepage, and underground waters” and alleged to have been theretofore already intercepted, captured, and appropriated by the company and its predecessors in title, by means of their so-called Old Riley Dunton ditch as a conduit, for the purpose of growing crops on their lands. The district court found in favor of the plaintiff company and entered judgment…