In re Waters of Umatilla River
Oregon Supreme Court
From Umatilla: Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge. In Banc. This is a proceeding initiated by the United States as a consumer of water of the Umatilla River to have the rights of the several water users upon that stream adjudicated under the provisions of the Water Code of 1909, codified in Section 6635, et seq., L. O. L. The stream in question takes its rise in the Blue Mountains in the eastern part of Umatilla County and augmented by several affluents in its course, flows northerly…
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From Umatilla: Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge. In Banc. This is a proceeding initiated by the United States as a consumer of water of the Umatilla River to have the rights of the several water users upon that stream adjudicated under the provisions of the Water Code of 1909, codified in Section 6635, et seq., L. O. L. The stream in question takes its rise in the Blue Mountains in the eastern part of Umatilla County and augmented by several affluents in its course, flows northerly and northwesterly until it unites with the Columbia River. One of its tributaries is Butter Creek which, roughly…
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
(172 Pae. 97.)
Mr. W. G. Browley,. for the petition.
Mr. Harrison Allen, Mr. R. R. Johnson, Mr. Frederick Steiwer, Mr. Oliver P. Morton, Mr. Will R. King, Chief Counsel U. S. Rec. Service, Mr. James A. Fee, Mr. Stephen A. Lowell and Mr. James H. Raley, contra.
In Banc.
McCAMANT, J.
A rehearing was granted in this case, not because we were dissatisfied with the conclusions reached by Mr. Justice Burnett, but because of the importance of the case and the earnest insistence of counsel for appellant that in the hurry of the Pendleton term no opportunity was given adequately to present the…
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