Laramie Irrigation & Power Co. v. Grant

Blume, Justice.

This action was commenced in 1919 to enjoin George Grant as water commissioner from attempting to regulate the distribution of water in favor of the Wyoming Development Company. The petition alleges that plaintiff is the owner and in possession of the Lobach ditch, taking water from the Little Laramie River and its tributaries; that the board of control in 1892 adjudicated 59 cubic feet of water per second of time for 4120 acres of land underlying said ditch as of a priority dating from March, 1888; that the defendant water commissioner, upon the complaint of the Wyoming…