L Slash X Cattle Co. v. Texaco, Inc.

ROONEY, Justice.

Appellants appeal from an order of the district court granting a motion of appellee Texaco, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Texaco) to dismiss appellants’ petition to review an order of the Board of Control. The motion was predicated upon a lack of standing on the part of appellants to continue the review procedure.

We affirm.

The order of the Board of Control denied, on its merits, appellants’ request1 to declare abandoned for nonuse two of Texaco’s adjudicated water rights for diversion, storage and use of water in Lake DeSmet Reservoir. The two rights were senior in priority…