La Jara Creamery & Live Stock Ass'n v. Hansen

The parties are appropriators of water from the La Jara river, a natural stream in water district No. 21, the appellee being the senior appropriator, the head gate of whose ditch is lower down the stream than that of appellant. After these appropriations and decrees therefor were made divers other persons made appropriations of water from another natural stream in the same water district — Conejos' river-— which has no connection whatever with the La Jara. These subsequent appropriations were not made for the purpose of irrigating lands whose natural drainage is into the Conejos, but were…