Black Brothers Flour Mills v. Umphenour

On November 4, 1922, Black Brothers Flour Mills, a corporation, hereinafter called “applicant,” instituted this proceeding before the department of public works for the purpose of securing a formal adjudication of its claim to use, for milling and power purposes, all the waters flowing in the Big Blue river at a designated point, being in block 68 of the original town site of the city of Beatrice. The purpose of the application was not to secure a new appropriation of water, but rather to have a public record made by the department of public works of the applicant’s prior right of…