Trail's End Ranch, L.L.C. v. Colorado Division of Water Resources

Trail’s End Ranch appealed directly to this court from a judgment of the water court denying the declaratory and injunctive relief it sought against the Colorado Division of Water Resources. The division engineer had ordered Trail’s End to stop taking water out of Spruce Creek at locations other than the points of diversion decreed to its direct- flow irrigation rights, until those additional locations were approved by the water court. Trail’s End filed in the water court to enjoin enforcement of the order, asserting that having once diverted water at its decreed points of diversion and…