State Ex Rel. Lincoln Land Co. v. Burritt

Kimball, Chief Justice.

This is an action commenced in this court by the State on the relation of Lincoln Land Company, plaintiff, against the State Engineer, defendant, for mandamus to require the defendant to recognize as valid the water right in question in the abandonment proceeding considered in the case of Horse Creek Conservation District, contestant-appellant, v. Lincoln Land Company, contestee-respondent, No. 1983, decided this day.. After the district court had dismissed the abandonment proceeding, and before the contestant’s appeal from the order of dismissal had been perfected, the…