Allen v. Petrick

Strawberry Creek rises in the Absarokee Mountains, in Park county and flows westerly into the Yellowstone Eiver. In 1880 and the following years settlers took ditches from the creek for irrigating adjacent ranches. As in nearly all eases of this character the amounts of water used were small at first and greater in more recent years. A controversy having arisen as to their respective priorities to the use of the waters of the stream the plaintiff brought this suit against the defendants. Practically all of the parties are successors in interest of the original appropriators. From the court’s…