Salt Lake City v. Gardner

This action was instituted pursuant to section 1288x14, Comp. Laws 1907, to determine the right of respondents to-*32appropriate a specific quantity of water from Utah Lake. In September, 1905, pursuant to section 1288x6, respondents duly made and filed with, the state engineer their application to appropriate forty cubic feet of water per second of time from said lake. Appellants, pursuant to section 1288x9, duly protested said application, which protest the state engineer overruled and allowed respondents’ application, whereupon appellants brought this action to determine respondents’ rights…