Laramie Rivers Co. v. Pioneer Canal Co.

ROSE, Justice.

The primary question in these consolidated appeals concerns the parties’ relative obligations, under certain written instruments, to pay for the cost of constructing a measuring flume on a jointly-owned water supply canal. Pioneer Canal Company (hereinafter the plaintiff) filed an action seeking a money judgment against Laramie Rivers Company (hereinafter the defendant), urging that the defendant was responsible for all the costs of the flume under a 1909 deed or, alternatively, for a proportional share of the costs under either a 1964 agreement or an unjust-enrichment theory.…