Quirico v. Hickory Jackson Ditch Co.

Defendant in error ditch company, as plaintiff below, sought injunction against Quirico and Kane, grounded upon asserted ownership of a water appropriation out of Rock Creek decreed as of September 24, 1919, to the Alamosa Ditch, and also upon asserted right to divert all the drainage water carried in Bowen Drainage Canal outlet at the point where the same crosses Rock Creek “by contract and filing an application for beneficial use,” and diversion and use of such water for many years. In its complaint, plaintiff alleged that defendants had interfered with its said water rights and diverted…