Farm Investment Co. v. Gallup
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Johnson County,, Hon. Joseph D. Stotts, Judge. The material facts are stated in the opinion. In taking its mortgage the plaintiff in error had a right to rely upon Section 1340, Revised Statutes of 1887, providing for the filing of statements of claims to water rights. It was under no obligation to look for other record as to ditch or water rights belonging to the land covered by its mortgage, and it had no other source of information.
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Error to the District Court, Johnson County,, Hon. Joseph D. Stotts, Judge. The material facts are stated in the opinion. In taking its mortgage the plaintiff in error had a right to rely upon Section 1340, Revised Statutes of 1887, providing for the filing of statements of claims to water rights. It was under no obligation to look for other record as to ditch or water rights belonging to the land covered by its mortgage, and it had no other source of information. The mortgage' from Snider to Bacon, under which the defendants in error Gallup claimed title, covered only so much of the ditch in…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Justice.
This action was brought by the plaintiff in error in the District Court sitting in the County of Johnson for the *25purpose of having its alleged right to the use of certain of the waters of French Creek quieted, and having said right adjudged superior and prior to the rights of the several defendants. ■ The original defendants were Mary E. Carpenter, Juliet H. Taylor, Verling K. Hart,- Fred W. Foster, Alice S. Rapelyea, John A. Fischer, Robert Foote and Peter Gorgen. Previous to the trial Warren Gallup, James D. Gallup and Garret B. Gallup were substituted for Mary L. Carpenter,…
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