Coldwater Cattle Co. v. Portales Valley Project, Inc.

OPINION

SPIESS, Judge, Court of Appeals.

Appellees, Coldwater Cattle Company, together with a number of other parties similarly situate brought this action to enjoin appellant, Portales Valley Project, Inc.; from prosecuting 197 applications'before the. State Engineer for partial change of point of diversion and to supplement certain existing water rights and, further, to quiet the title to appellees’ lands against appellant.

The trial court, after hearing, granted the injunction and entered a decree quieting appellees’ titles as against appellant and against the claim or right of appellant to…