Fort Lyon Canal Co. v. Rocky Ford Canal, Reservoir, Land, Loan & Trust Co.

Four separate proceedings, under our pertinent statute, asking the same relief, were filed by the petitioner, the owner of the Rocky Ford Highline Canal, and were consolidated for hearing as one case. The object of the consolidated case is to obtain a decree allowing petitioner to change the original point of diversion from the Arkansas river, of three small ditches, called the Swallows ditches, situate in the western part of Pueblo county — whose early priorities of 1870-1872, aggregating 8.3 second cubic feet, the petitioner had acquired by purchase — and to take out their decreed volume of…