Union Colony v. Elliott

The petition for the awarding of the writ of man-damns in this case, sets out that the petitioners are corporations, doing business in "Weld county, and that they are owners of and interested in ditches, appropriating water from the Cache-la-Poudre river, in water district No. 3. It states that a referee was appointed to take testimony in said water district, under the provisions of the irrigation act of February 19, 1879; that due notice was given, and the testimony of all persons attending was taken, as required by the act, and duly returned by the referee. That thereafter two several…