Quirico v. Hickory Jackson Ditch Company

Action was commenced by the Hickory Jackson Ditch Company, the purpose whereof was to procure an order permanently restraining defendants from diverting water from Rock Creek in Water District No. 20, Irrigation Diversion No. 3, of the State of Colorado, in depletion of plaintiffs claimed right under its decree of December 15, 1934, with established date of priority thereto from said Rock Creek as of September 24, 1919; also to prevent defendants from further diverting water from the Bowen Drainage Canal.

By answer, defendants denied plaintiff’s title; affirma tively alleged use of said waters…