Otto Lumber Co. v. Water Supply & Storage Co.

Mr. Justice Francis E. Bouck

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error Otto Lumber Company, a Wyoming corporation, asks us to review a judgment of the Larimer county district court dismissing the company’s petition for a decree changing the point of diversion of water claimed under a ditch priority adjudicated by a decree of 1896 in that court. This decree was for 16.43 cubic feet of water per second of time to be taken out of the Laramie river through the Bliler and Boswell ditch for the irrigation of 225 acres of land in Colorado and 300 acres of land in Wyoming. The Wyoming…