Legal Opinion
Sanpete Water Conservancy District v. Carbon Water Conservancy District
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 15, 2000No. 99-4136PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRORBY, Circuit Judge.
This case flows from yet another skirmish in the never-ending war over water in the American West. Sanpete Water Conservancy District (Sanpete) and Carbon Water Conservancy District (Carbon) are the long-time combatants, and frequent litigants, in this battle concerning the capture and use of water in the Price River watershed in Utah. This most recent lawsuit is a contract interpretation case. The district court granted partial summary judgment to Carbon on Sanpete’s breach of contract claim and, after a four-day bench trial, entered judgment against San-pete on its…
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