Provo Bench Canal and Irrigation Co. v. Linke

WADE, Justice.

This appeal involves two applications by the United States of America .to the State Engineer to change the place of diversion and use of many water rights acquired by it in the construction of the Deer Creek Reservoir in Provo Canyon. Over the protest of the lower water users the State Engineer approved these applications from which the protestants appealed by commencing this action in the District Court. The District Court rejected the applications and the State Engineer and the U.S.A. appeal from that decision. We must determine whether there was a showing of reason to believe…