Salt Lake City v. Silver Fork Pipeline Corp.

STEWART, Justice:

1 1 Silver Fork Pipeline Corporation (hereinafter "SFPC") appeals the trial court's decision to quiet title in Salt Lake City to nearly .5 cubic feet per second ("ef.s.") of water flowing in Big Cottonwood Creek (the "creek") that SFPC had been diverting at the Kentucky-Utah Mine (the "mine". SFPC also appeals the court's dismissal of its counterclaim seeking reimbursement of amounts it paid Salt Lake to purchase water from the mine. We affirm.

I. THE MORSE DECREE ADJUDICATION OF BIG COTTONWOOD CREEK

112 Big Cottonwood Canyon lies southeast of Salt Lake City. Big Cottonwood…