Ellison Ranching Co. v. Bartlett

OPINION

By the Court,

Coleman, C. J.:

This is an original proceeding in prohibition to arres., proceedings before the respondent.

It grows out of the proceedings instituted many years ago to have adjudicated the relative rights of the water users of the Humboldt river stream system.

Pursuant to preliminary steps theretofore taken, the state engineer, on January 17, 1923, filed in said matter his order of determination with the clerk of the district court of the sixth judicial district of Nevada, in and for Humboldt County. Thereafter certain water users along said stream system filed their…