Wellsville East Field Irr. Co. v. Lindsay Land & Livestock Co.

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

This started as a suit in equity, brought by the plaintiff irrigation companies to enforce a previous decree of the District Court of Cache County in a case entitled Utah Power and Light Co. v. Richmond Irrigation Company. That decree, commonly known as the Kimball Decree, was entered February 21,1922. It purported to be a general adjudication of all water rights in Little Bear River. However, some of the defendants in the present suit were not bound by the Kimball Decree because neither they nor their predecessors were made parties to it. The plaintiffs base their claims…