Deseret Live Stock Co. v. Hooppiania

I concur in the opinion of Mr. Chief Justice Gideon that chapter 67, Sess. Laws of Utah 1919, provides an exclusive method for the appropriation of public water in the state of Utah. The very language and purpose of the act, when construed in connection with the acts which it superseded and repealed, demonstrates conclusively that the purpose was to provide an exclusive method of appropriating water and securing a record title thereto. I do not deem it necessary to enter upon a review of the statutes of neighboring states, nor the decisions of their courts interpreting the same, for the…