Oklahoma Water Resources Board v. City of Lawton

DAVISON, Justice:

In this case, this Court is asked to review an order of the District Court of Oklahoma County which reversed an order of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board which granted one of the appellants, Mr. Larry Cabelka, a temporary permit to appropriate 400 acre feet of ground water annually for recreation, housing development, and for commercial irrigation use. Appellee, City of Lawton, Oklahoma, a municipal corporation, protested the granting of the permit, stating that the water which Mr. Cabelka sought to appropriate comes to the surface of the earth in the form of a spring and…