Handy Ditch Co. v. South Side Ditch Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Larimer County. This is the second time that this ease has been before this court. The opinion rendered on the former hearing is reported in 22 Colo. 102. The controversy, briefly stated, is as follows: In May, 1887, the Handy Ditch Company filed a complaint in the district court of Larimer county against all the ditch and canal companies in irrigation district No. 4, for the purpose of adjudicating priorities of water rights for irrigation in…
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Error to the District Court of Larimer County. This is the second time that this ease has been before this court. The opinion rendered on the former hearing is reported in 22 Colo. 102. The controversy, briefly stated, is as follows: In May, 1887, the Handy Ditch Company filed a complaint in the district court of Larimer county against all the ditch and canal companies in irrigation district No. 4, for the purpose of adjudicating priorities of water rights for irrigation in that district, except the Home Supply Ditch and Reservoir Company, which brought suit for the same purpose against the…
1Per curiam
In the opinion rendered upon the former appeal we held that sec. 19, p. 100, Sess. Laws, 1879, when considered in connection with other sections of the irrigation act, vested exclusive jurisdiction in the matter of adjudication of water rights in one district court; and that that court, as therein designated, when more than one county was included in an irrigation district, was the one in which the first regular term after the first day of December soonest occurred; and that from the facts pleaded in the answer and admitted by the demurrer, it appeared that the district court of Boulder…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Denver City Irrigation & Water Co. v. MiddaughSupreme Court of Colorado · 1889
- Arthur v. IsraelSupreme Court of Colorado · 1890
- Montrose Canal Co. v. Loutsenhizer Ditch Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1896
- Boulder & Weld County Ditch Co. v. Lower Boulder Ditch Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1896
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- Estate of Lee v. GraberSupreme Court of Colorado · 1969
- Fort Lyon Canal Co. v. Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet & Irrigated Land Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1907
- Combs v. Farmers' High Line Canal & Reservoir Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1906
- Crippen v. X. Y. Irrigating Ditch Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1904
- Field v. KincaidSupreme Court of Colorado · 1919
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