State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Potter Co.

McGHEE, Justice.

The State Engineer sued to enjoin the use of water from the Roswell Artesian basin on certain parts of two farms, owned by the defendant, one known as the East Second Street farm east of Roswell, and the other as the Strickland farm in the East Grand Plains neighborhood southeast of Roswell. The injunctions were denied following a decision below that the defendant had valid water rights on the lands in dispute and this appeal followed.

There was a 34.28 acre tract involved on the first mentioned farm from which the water had been transferred to another tract, but…