People Ex Rel. Denver v. District Court

The people, ex rel. the City and County of Denver and its board of water commissioners, filed in this court a petition for a writ of prohibition running to the district court of Douglas county and commanding that tribunal to desist from further proceeding in, and to transmit to the district court of the City and County of Denver, a certain suit there pending wherein the plaintiffs — as owners of water priorities decreed to them respectively more than forty years ago by the district court of Park county in a special statutory adjudication proceeding brought in water district No. 23 — were…