Hunt v. City of Laramie
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court, Albany County; HoN. W. C. Mentzer, Judge. James Hunt, as executor of the last will and testament of Alice Hunt, deceased, applied to the State Engineer for a permit to divert and appropriate waters.
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Error to District Court, Albany County; HoN. W. C. Mentzer, Judge. James Hunt, as executor of the last will and testament of Alice Hunt, deceased, applied to the State Engineer for a permit to divert and appropriate waters. The application was rejected and, on appeal to the State Board of Control, the ruling of the State Engineer was reversed, and the City of Laramie, claiming ownership of the waters applied for, appealed to the District Court, where a judgment was rendered in its favor; petitioner and the Board of Control bring error. The City of Laramie was not an aggrieved party within the…
1Opinion of the Court
Burgess, District Judge.
On June 5, 1913, James Hunt, as executor of the last will and testament of Alice Hunt, deceased, caused to be filed in the office of the State Engineer of the State of AVyoming an application for a permit to divert and appropriate, through the means of a ditch, for irrigation and stock purposes, the waters of a certain spring situated in Albany County, Wyoming, and known as “Pope Spring”. On June 30, 1914, the State Engineer rejected the application and endorsed thereon as the reason therefor, “Owing to insufficient water supply, the proposed ditch is not feasible.”…
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