Legal Opinion
WS Ranch Company v. Kaiser Steel Corporation
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided March 18, 1968No. 8368PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CARMODY, Justice.
The district court affirmed the state engineer’s approval of Kaiser Steel’s application to change the point of diversion of certain adjudicated water rights, and W. S. Ranch appeals.
Although there are other connected topics,' the basic issue has to do with the meaning and effect to be given to the final decree which adjudicated the water rights of the Vermejo Stream System in 1941. Under the decree, the maximum duty of water of the 163.4 acres with which we are concerned was adjudged “to be two acre-feet of water per annum per acre of land irrigated delivered at the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Farmers Highline Canal & Reservoir Co. v. City of GoldenSupreme Court of Colorado · 1954
- City of Albuquerque v. ReynoldsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1962
- Hagerman Irrigation Co. v. McMurryNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1911
- Clodfelter v. ReynoldsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1961
- New Mexico Products Co. v. New Mexico Power Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1937
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Basin Electric Power Cooperative v. State Board of ControlWyoming Supreme Court · 1978
- Kaiser Steel Corporation v. WS Ranch CompanyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1970
- City of Roswell v. BerryNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1969
- Herrington v. State Ex Rel. Office of the State EngineerNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2006
- City of Roswell v. ReynoldsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1974
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