SL GROUP, LLC v. Go West Industries, Inc.

SL Group, LLC, appealed directly to this court from an order of the water court in Division No. 4 dismissing SU's verified petition to correct substantive errors in a judgment and decree adjudicating water rights in favor of Go West Industries, Inc. The water judge dismissed the petition without reconsidering the merits of its earlier adjudication on the grounds that SL's allegations were insufficient to demonstrate that its failure to protest the application at the appropriate time was due to mistake, inadvertence, or excusable neglect. Under the circumstances of this case, including that…