Four Counties Water Users Ass'n v. Colorado River Water Conservation District & Town of Steamboat Springs

The parties in this writ of error will be referred to as follows: Plaintiff in error — Four Counties Water Users Association — as Four Counties or claimant; defendants in error Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Town of Steamboat Springs as objectors.

Four Counties expressed a desire and intention to put to beneficial use waters in Routt County and in Grand County to be diverted, through a system of exchange, to counties east of the divide. Claimant filed in the district court in each of the counties its Statement of Claims, asserting that appropriations had been made and due…