Rocky Ford Irr. Co. v. Kents Lake Reservoir Co.

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

In April, 1938, the defendant Kents Lake Reservoir Company filed with the defendant State Engineer an application to change the place of storage of 830 acre feet of water per annum out of a previously awarded storage right of 1,660 acre feet from the South Fork of Beaver River to a proposed reservoir site on the main channel of Beaver River commonly called “Three Creeks.” Another application was filed by Kents Lake in March, 1940, with the State Engineer to appropriate for annual storage from Beaver River 1,193 acre feet of water alleged to be unappropriated, the same to…