Legal Opinion

Tanner v. Provo Reservoir Co.

Utah Supreme Court

Decided August 10, 1931No. 4979PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtElias Hansen, J.

The plaintiff brought this suit to quiet the right, as against the defendants, to the use of a flow of five cubic feet per second of the waters of Provo river, and also to require T. F. Wentz, as water commissioner of Provo river, to deliver to the plaintiff the water claimed by him.

Provo river is a natural water course. It rises in Summit and Wasatch counties, Utah, and flows in a southwesterly direction through said counties, thence into Utah county, and empties into Utah Lake. Plaintiff’s claim to the use of the water which forms the subject-matter of this controversy is founded upon a…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. In re EvansUtah Supreme Court · 1913
  2. Teakle v. San Pedro, L. A. & S. L. R.Utah Supreme Court · 1907
  3. San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad v. Board of EducationUtah Supreme Court · 1909
  4. Perrin v. Union Pac. R.Utah Supreme Court · 1921
  5. Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. ShurtliffUtah Supreme Court · 1916

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Staker v. Huntington Cleveland Irrigation Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1983
  2. United States Building & Loan Ass'n v. Midvale Home Finance Corp.Utah Supreme Court · 1935
  3. Tanner v. Provo Reservoir Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1940
  4. Whitcomb v. MurphyMontana Supreme Court · 1933
  5. Tanner v. Provo Reservoir Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1945

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