Legal Opinion
Fort Lyon Canal Co. v. Amity Mutual Irrigation Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided September 17, 1984No. 82SA226PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOHR, Justice.
This is an appeal by The Fort Lyon Canal Company (Fort Lyon) from a decree of the District Court for Water Division No. 2, granting to The Amity Mutual Irrigation Company (Amity) an absolute storage right for 2,565 acre feet of water and a conditional storage right for 12,635 acre feet. We reverse.
On May 21, 1979, Amity applied for the right to store 15,200 acre feet of water in the Horse Creek Reservoir, fed by Wild Horse Creek. The proposed use for the stored water is irrigation. The referee granted to Amity an absolute storage right decree in the requested amount, with a…
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