Cities of Hesston & Sedgwick v. Smrha

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

This is the fourth appearance of this controversy (Cities of Hesston & Sedgwick v. Smrha, 179 Kan. 72, 293 P. 2d 241; City of Hesston v. Smrha, 184 Kan. 223, 336 P. 2d 428; City of Hesston v. Smrha, 186 Kan. 477, 351 P. 2d 204), and the instant appeal is from an order dismissing the chief engineer of water resources as a party to a proceeding pending on appeal in the district court from an order entered by the chief engineer on September 15, 1953, determining certain vested rights of individual water users under the Water Appropriation Act…