Legal Opinion
Broadwater-Missouri Water Users' Ass'n v. Montana Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 4, 1944No. 10350PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEALY, Circuit Judge.
The Montana Power Company, incorporated in New Jersey, is engaged in the business of generating and distributing electric power in the state of Montana. It brought suit in the federal court for Montana against the State Water Conservation Board, the individual members thereof, and the Broadwater-Missouri Water Users’ Association (an organization of the settlers in the Broadwater-Missouri irrigation project).
In its complaint the Power Company asserted the right by prior appropriation to the use of all the waters of the Missouri River and its tributaries for the purpose of…
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