Rio Grande Land & Canal Co. v. Prairie Ditch Co.

Tbe judgment appealed from was rendered by the district *227court of Costilla county upon an application by the Prairie Ditch Company and the Farmers’ Union Ditch Company, two of the appellees, who as petitioners below, asked to have reopened and reviewed a former decree of that court rendered in the statutory proceedings for the adjudication of the priority of rights to the use of water for irrigation in water district No. 20.

In the original proceedings the jurisdiction of the district court was properly invoked to make the adjudication. A referee was appointed to take testimony and report…