Antero & Lost Park Reservoir Co. v. Lowe
Supreme Court of Colorado
Equitable action involving the construction of an irrigation system and contracts relating thereto. Error to the District Court of Adams County, Hon. Harry S. Class, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Garrigues
This case contains probably the longest record ever brought to this court. There were 165 days spent in the trial, 80 witnesses were examined and 385 exhibits introduced in evidence. The record contains 40,000 folios of typewritten matter. The printed abstract contains 16,294 pages and there are 1,428 printed pages of brief and argument.
In 1879 the Platte Land Company, Ltd., called the English Company, for the purpose of irrigating a large body of land it owned near Denver, constructed the Highline canal at a cost of $644,000, which is about 83 miles long, and covers over 100,000 acres. It…
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