Justesen v. Olsen

BATES, District Judge.

This action involves the right to the use of waters of an artesian basin situate in Sanpete county, Utah. The court’s findings, based on the pleadings and sufficient evidence, set out: That plaintiff’s land, consisting of 127 acres, was segregated from the public domain in the year 1888; that the defendants’ land, consisting of 527 acres situated immediately to the north of plaintiff’s land, was segregated from the public domain in different parcels between the years 1873 and 1901. That there has been on plaintiff’s land since the time when the memory of man runneth not…