Pikes Peak Power Co. v. City of Colorado Springs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United Sta tes for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill of the Pikes Peak Power Company, a corporation, upon the merits at the final hearing. The suit which culminated in that decree arose in this way: For many years the city of Colorado Springs, the appellee, has derived its supply of water from watersheds on the slopes of Pikes Peak some 19 miles from the city, and more than 6,000 feet above the level of the sea. The city owns more than 4,000 acres of land on these slopes, ;md it collects the water from rains and melting snows into reservoirs in the mountains, and by open…
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