City of Denver v. Colorado Land & Livestock Co.

Plaintiff in error is hereinafter referred to as “the city” or “the plaintiff,” and defendants in error as “the defendants. ’ ’

The city has a decreed priority, as of date 1860, for certain water for power and irrigation purposes. This is diverted from the South Platte river through the head-gate of the Bough and Beady ditch, located near Little-ton, the county seat of Arapahoe county. It brought this action under sections 1706 and 1707, C. L. 1921, for a decree moving the diversion point of 14.1 second feet of its power appropriation and .27 second feet of its irrigation appropriation several…