Acequia Del Llano v. Acequia De Las Joyas Del Llano Frio
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Santa Fe County, E. C. ■ Abbott, Judge. Suit by Acequia del Llano and others against Acequia de Las Joyas del Llano Frio, Teófilo Lopez, and Juan Antonio Mirabal.
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Appeal from District Court, Santa Fe County, E. C. ■ Abbott, Judge. Suit by Acequia del Llano and others against Acequia de Las Joyas del Llano Frio, Teófilo Lopez, and Juan Antonio Mirabal. Decree for plaintiffs, and secondarily for the Pueblo of Nambe, and second suit by practically the same plaintiffs for injunction against Acequia de Las Joyas del Llano Frio and Miguel Herrera, in which there was decree for a permanent injunction affirming the decree in the first suit, and application by Eobert E. Bridgers citing certain parties for contempt for violating the decrees entered in the former…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION' OP THE COURT.
ROBERTS, J.
In the year 1900 seven distinct community acequias were named in an amended complaint filed in the district court of Santa Fe county as plaintiffs in an action against the Acequia de Las Joyas del Llano Frio, sometimes called the Acequia Nueva. Teófilo Lopez, its mayordomo, and one Juan Antonio Mirabal, governor of the pueblo of Nambe, were made defendants. The complaint alleged that the acequias plaintiffs were public acequias and corporations, located in precinct No. 1 of said county, and that from time immemorial they had existed as such and had taken water…
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