Needle Rock Ditch Co. v. Ankenman

Plaintiffs in error, respondents in the district court, seek reversal of a judgment entered in a general water adjudication proceeding in Water District 40 of the State of Colorado, by which defendant in error Ankenman, petitioner in the district court, was awarded a priority as of date March 1, 1889, for one-half cubic foot per second of time of the water naturally flowing in Cottonwood Creek when no waters of the Needle Rock Ditch system are flowing therein, and forty hundredths of a cubic foot of such water when Needle Rock Ditch water is being conveyed through the channel of Cottonwood…