Ranson v. City of Boulder & Public Service Co.

William and Lois Ranson commenced a supplemental adjudication in Water District 6 by filing a petition wherein they sought an adjudication of water rights in and to a certain spring located on property owned by them. In this petition the Ransons asserted that they “owned” and had the right to the use of “any and all waters” coming from the spring on their property.

In the trial court the city of Boulder and the Public Service Company of Colorado appeared in this particular proceeding, and each filed a protest wherein each claimed that the spring water in question was tributary to a stream on…