Yentzer v. Hemenway

This appeal is a culmination of legal action by junior appropriators of irrigation water seeking to have partial abandonment declared against holders of senior rights, the initial action being taken as a contest under the provisions of § 41-48, W.S.1957, with certain departures therefrom by stipulation of the parties. That contest resulted in declarations of abandonment in certain situations and some of the appropriators against whom abandonment was declared thereafter filed a petition under § 41-53, W.S.1957, for a de novo hearing of the controversy before the district court, which resulted…