United States v. Earl Martin and De Berard Cattle Company

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court allowing appellees to jointly intervene, and from a judgment on De Berard Cattle Company’s counterclaim, in this declaratory class action by the United States, for an adjudication of the respective rights of the affected parties, to the use of water of the Colorado River, arising out of the Colorado Big-Thompson diversion project.

This project had for its primary objective the diversion of the waters of the Colorado River from the Western Slope to the Eastern Slope of the Rockies for irrigation purposes, by means of a…