Thrasher v. Mannix & Wilson

The plaintiffs brought this action to enjoin the defendant from changing the place of diversion of a certain water right. All the parties to the action are the owners of one or more adjudicated water rights under a decree entered in 1915 in the district court of Powell county, Montana, in the waters of Gold Creek and its tributaries. The defendant, a corporation, is the owner of a water right of 150 inches, appropriated June 1, 1878, another of 350 inches, appropriated April 30, 1888, and a third right which was adjudicated in the name of James Keenan, but subsequent to the decree, conveyed…