Model Land & Irrigation Co. v. Baca Irrigating Ditch Co.

For convenience we hereinafter refer to plaintiff in error as plaintiff and defendants in error as defendants. Iii a general statutory proceeding for the adjudication of priorities of right to the use of water for irrigation, defendants were decreed certain priorities “for stock and household purposes.” Plaintiff, claiming this water under its storage appropriation, brings error to review that judgment.

This action was begun under the statutes of 1879 and 1881 (Laws 1879, p. 94 and Laws 1881, p. 142) and first terminated in a decree entered August 10,1903. Defendants were parties- thereto and…