Bijou Irrigation Co. v. Lower Latham Ditch Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

Defendants in error The Lower Latham Ditch Company, The Union Ditch Company and The Godfrey Ditch Company were plaintiffs below in a suit against the plaintiffs in error to enjoin defendant water officials from distributing water in a way claimed by the plaintiffs to be detrimental to their interests.

The complaint sets up the adjudication of water rights in 1883, in Water District No. 2, by the District Court for the then County of Arapahoe, and the adjudication in said proceeding of certain priorities to each of said plaintiffs; that there were also therein…