Legal Opinion
El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 v. City of El Paso
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided August 1, 1955No. Civ. A. 1409PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLEY, District Judge.
This suit primarily is a contest over the rights to the waters of the Rio Grande River in the vicinity of El Paso,, Texas, but along with that are a cluster of satellite controversies. The frame of the principal dispute is that the plaintiffs, El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, a political subdivision of Texas, together with some individuals owning land in said district, and the United States of America, contend that the waters in question have been committed to the needs and uses of a federal reclamation development, lying partly in New Mexico and partly…
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