Surface Creek Ditch & Reservoir Co. v. Grand Mesa Resort Co.

A complaint was filed in the district court by the Grand Mesa Resort Company, a corporation, in which the Surface Creek Ditch and Reservoir Company, a corporation, and Robert E. Robinson; water commissioner in Water District 40 in the state of Colorado, were named as defendants. Upon the trial judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff, to review which defendant Surface Creek Ditch & Reservoir Company has brought the cause here by writ of error.. Herein reference will be made to the parties as plaintiff and defendant.

The complaint contained three causes of action, the first involving a…