Sweetwater Development Corp. v. Ranches

Claims for conditional decrees as to well water were filed in 1967 in a supplementary water adjudication proceeding under the Adjudication Act of 1943. C.R.S. 1963, 148-9-1 et seq. Later proof was made under these claims, and thereafter there was created the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin (hereinafter refer*381red to as the “Basin”). Subsequently, conditional decrees were entered in the supplemental adjudication. These embrace water located within the Basin. The issue is whether upon the creation of the Basin the court lost jurisdiction as to this water, and jurisdiction vested in the Ground…