Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Salt Lake City

OPINION

GARFF, Judge:

This is an appeal by Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Company (Company) from a declaratory judgment granted in favor of Salt Lake City (City) interpreting two agreements. The trial court found the City responsible for maintenance of the “mains,” and the Company responsible for maintenance of the individual service lines and private lines from main to meter.

On January 2, 1920, the Company and the City entered into an agreement to exchange culinary and irrigation water and to provide for a pipeline system to distribute the culinary water. The agreement purported, among other…