Bates v. Hall

In a special proceeding brought for that purpose under the statute (Session Laws 1903,- p. 278), of which due notice to the parties affected was given, the district court rendered a decree permitting the two petitioners to change from the Stubbs and Miller ditch,' which takes water from Fountain creek in water district No. 10, El Paso' county, to ditch No. 2 of the Fountain Valley Company farther up the same stream and in the same water district, the point of diversion of their right to the use of water for irrigation, each petitioner claiming a one-sixth interest in the quantity theretofore…