United States v. Palisade Irrigation District

The plaintiff in error was a party to a proceeding for the adjudication of water rights in water district No. 42 in Mesa County, claiming, as owner of the Grand Valley project, or Government High Line Canal, twelve hundred cubic feet of water per second from the Grand River.

The decree recites,

“that at the time the evidence was taken concerning ditches on the Grand River no construction work had been done on said canal, and the extent and character of the appropriation can not now be fixed. * * * That the priority of said canal is hereby fixed as No. 10 from the Grand River, provided that the…