McCormick v. Sixth Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

This proceeding attacks the constitutionality of an act of the state legislature making the services of the state engineer available to the district courts of the state for •the purpose of administering the distribution of the waters of a stream or stream system under a prior final decree in an equity suit adjudicating the rights of the respective water users. The situation is separate and distinct from the administration of the waters of a stream or stream system under the provisions of sections 18 to 51 of the water law of 1913, 192, as amended. That part of…