Granite Ditch Co. v. Anderson

This action was instituted in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana, County of Carbon, requesting the District Court to amend a water rights decree entered in 1970 and to declare petitioners’ water rights senior to those of respondent, here the appellant. On December 16, 1981, the District Court entered its order “clarifying” the decree entered in 1970. The effect of the court’s order was to find the waters of Clear Creek to *12be part of the Rock Creek system, declare the rights of petitioners in Rock Creek water to be senior to the rights of appellant,…