Kibbee v. Kostelic

In July, 1910, John D. Pledger, who is the predecessor in interest of the plaintiff in error Kibbee, in an individual proceeding instituted by him in the district court of Chaffee county under the provisions of section 1788, C. L. 1921, entitled as in the general water adjudication proceeding in water district No. 11 of the state of Colorado, obtained a decree awarding to his Cedar Springs ranch ditch a priority of right to the use of water for irrigation from Four Mile creek of two cubic feet of water per second of time, with a priority as of date March 20, 1898, for the irrigation of the…