Legal Opinion
Dechert v. Christopulos
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided January 7, 1980No. 5144PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, Justice.
This case principally concerns Fremont County, Wyoming, litigants and is mostly a contest among members of and the Midvale Irrigation District (hereafter Midvale), plaintiffs-appellants, and members of and the Riverton Valley (hereafter Riverton) and the LeClair Riverton (hereafter LeC-lair) Irrigation Districts, defendants-appel-lees. The central issue is whether, in 1917, the State of Wyoming, through the Board of Land Commissioners (hereafter the Board), with the approval of the State Engineer, validly granted Riverton and LeC-lair certain preferential rights to the waters of…
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