Beaver Park Water, Inc. v. City of Victor

HODGES, Chief Justice.

In the District Court in and for Water Division No. 2 (water court), the plaintiffs-appellants sought a judgment declaring that the “Altman water rights” located in Beaver Creek and now owned and used by the City of Victor, a defendant-appellee, were abandoned because of nonuse between the years 1957 and 1977, and an order restraining the appellees from extracting any water by virtue of these water decrees which had priority dates in 1861 and 1893. The plaintiffs-appellants are owners and lessees of certain water rights on Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River.…