Reeves v. Pecos County Water Improvement Dist. No. 1

It is vigorously insisted in the motion for rehearing that the effect of our decision is to deprive defendants in error of the value of the water rights owned by them, that plaintiffs in error have no interest in where the water covered by their water rights is used, and would suffer no damage by reason of their use of the water on other and different lands from those to which such water rights were restricted.

We think this insistence is due to a misconception by defendants in error as to the extent of the water rights held by them. They are insisting upon an enlargement of such rights…