Van Tassel Real Estate & Livestock Co. v. City of Cheyenne

This is an action by plaintiff to enjoin defendant The City of Cheyenne (which only needs to be men tioned among the defendants) from diverting water to which plaintiff claimed to be entitled, and to recover damages for wrongful diversion. The following facts appear:

The City of Cheyenne is a municipal corporation, located in southeastern Wyoming, was incorporated about 1877, and ever since that time has gradually grown until it had a population of about 17,000 people according to the census of 1930. Immediately northwest of the city is located what was formerly known as Fort D. A. Russell,…