Public Service Co. v. Signs

This is an appeal from a decree of the Routt County district court which set aside prior conditional decrees of water rights obtained by the appellant Public Service Company of Colorado.

On October 2, 1970, the district court entered two conditional decrees for Public Service Company. The first was for direct flow rights for the Saddle Mountain Pump Stations in the amount of 65 c.f.s. and was given a priority date of August 4, 1964. The second conditional decree was for the Hinman Park Reservoir. It was for 44,038.7 acre feet of storage water and had a priority date of August 4, 1964.

All the…