Kearney Water & Electric Powers Co. v. Alfalfa Irrigation District

The irrigation act of 1895 (laws 1895, ch. 69, sec. 16) required “the state hoard at its first meeting to make proper arrangements for beginning the determination of the priorities of right to use the public waters of the state, which determination shall begin on streams most nsed for irrigation, and be continued as rapidly as practicable until all the claims for appropriation now on record shall have been adjudicated.” It seems that the legislature of 1911 amended this section and reenacted the requirement so that the board should proceed with the determination of priorities of rights in the…