Monte Vista Canal Co. v. Centennial Irrigating Ditch Co.

The Centennial Irrigating Ditch Company, a Colorado corporation, obtained a decree of the district court in and for the county of Costilla, changing the point of diversion of seventy-five cubic feet of water per second of time from the headgate of the Centennial ditch, through which it had been diverted for thirty-five years or more, to another point about two miles further up the Rio Grande river. The Monte Vista Canal Company, The San Luis Valley Irrigating District, The Rio Grande and Piedra Valley Ditch Company, and others, junior appropriates, protested against the change prayed for, and…