Putnam v. Curtis
Colorado Court of Appeals
Error to the Eistrict Court of Chaffee County.
1Opinion of the CourtThomson, J.
In the year 1883 Mr. Craig and Mr. Johnson were the owners of a ditch taking its supply of water from the North Fork of the South Arkansas river, in Chaffee county. Mr. Johnson afterwards abandoned the land upon which he used the water, and it reverted to the United States, leaving Mr. Craig in the sole possession of the ditch. Craig’s title was purchased by W. H. Allen. In 1888 D. P; Owen, Samuel Groover, Wesley King, B. J. King, Wilford King and George Curtis, occupants of land which could be irrigated from the ditch, in pursuance of an agreement with Mr. Allen, enlarged the ditch, and…
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