Bacon, State Engineer v. Gunnison Fayette Canal Co.

The plaintiff had a judgment for an alleged balance due upon an assessment for the salary and expenses of a water commissioner for the year 1926, from which the defendant appeals. The plaintiff is the state engineer. The defendant is an irrigation company which owns and exercises the right to divert and use water for irrigation from the Sevier river system in Sanpete county. Many other persons own and exercise similar rights. The state engineer by authority of law, and through a commissioner appointed for that purpose distributes the water of the river system among the numerous persons…