Cache la Poudre Irrigation Ditch Co. v. Hawley
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Cou-rt of Larimer County. Hon. Christian A. Bennett, Judge. Action by The Cache la Poudre Irrigating Ditch Company and The Larimer and Weld Reservoir Company against C. C. Hawley, as water commissioner of water district No. 3, James J. Armstrong, as superintendent of irrigation district No. 1, and Addison J. McCune, as state engineer.
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Error to the District Cou-rt of Larimer County. Hon. Christian A. Bennett, Judge. Action by The Cache la Poudre Irrigating Ditch Company and The Larimer and Weld Reservoir Company against C. C. Hawley, as water commissioner of water district No. 3, James J. Armstrong, as superintendent of irrigation district No. 1, and Addison J. McCune, as state engineer. The New Cache la Poudre Irrigating Company, O. Shang, as executor, Frank Mechand Willcox, Edgar Barkley, Edson Warren, Franklin P. Riddle and J. C. Riddle, intervened. From a judgment adverse to plaintiffs, they bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gabbert
Plaintiffs in error instituted an action in the court below against the water commissioner of water district No. 3, the superintendent of irrigation division No. 1, and the state engineer, the purpose of which was to compel these officials to recognize the right of the reservoir company to divert 19-30 of the appropriations belonging to the ditch company. The complaint alleges that the ditch company is the *35owner of certain priorities to the nse of water from the Cache la Poudre river for the purpose of irrigation; that these priorities are the property of its shareholders, and that each share…
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