PIONEER IRRIGATION DISTRICTS OF YUMA COUNTY, COLORADO AND DUNDY COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Plaintiffs-Petitioners-Appellants,
v.
Jeris A. DANIELSON, Colorado State Engineer and Ex Officio Executive Director of the Colorado Ground Water Commission, James R. Clark, Division Engineer in and for Water Division No. 1 and the Colorado Ground Water Commission, Defendants-Respondents-Appellees, and
Henry A. Bledsoe, et al., Entrants-Appellees.
PIONEER IRRIGATION DISTRICTS OF YUMA COUNTY, COLORADO AND DUNDY COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Plaintiffs-Petitioners-Appellants,
v.
William R. SMITH, [Former] Acting State Engineer of the State of Colorado and James R. Clark, Division Engineer in and for Water Division No. 1, Respondents-Appellees, and
Henry A. Bledsoe, et al., Entrants-Appellees.
PIONEER IRRIGATION DISTRICTS OF YUMA COUNTY, COLORADO AND DUNDY COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants,
v.
The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, ex rel. C.J. KUIPER, [Former] State Engineer, and W.G. Wilkinson, [Former] Division Engineer for Water Division No. 1, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
Loren F. Dickson & Sons, Inc., Alva C. Deterding, Fix Brothers and Henry Wiltfang, Defendants-Appellees.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 24, 1983.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing February 22, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison & Woodruff, P.C., David M. Brown, Raphael J. Moses, Boulder, for Pioneer Irr. Districts of Yuma County, Colorado and Dundy County, Neb., plaintiffs-petitioners-appellants and plaintiffs-intervenors-appellants.
J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Dennis M. Montgomery, Wendy C. Weiss, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for Jeris A. Danielson, Colo. State Engineer and Ex Officio Executive Director of the Colo. Ground Water Com'n, James R. Clark, Div. Engineer in and for Water Div. No. 1 and the Colo. Ground Water Com'n, defendants-respondents-appellees, and William R. Smith, [Former] acting State Engineer of the State of Colo. and James R. Clark, Div. Engineer in and for Water Div. No. 1, respondents-appellees, and The People of the State of Colo., ex rel. C.J. Kuiper, [Former] State Engineer, and W.G. Wilkinson, [Former] Div. Engineer for Water Div. No. 1, plaintiffs-appellees.
Francis A. Benedetti, Wray, for Henry A. Bledsoe, Lucile M. Bledsoe, Robert E. Bledsoe, Bledsoe Ranch Co., a Colo. corp., Bledsoe Cattle Co., a partnership, Sylvia J. Doke, Willard Relph, Duard Fix, Robert H. Cordes, Floyd Renzelman, Ramona Crownover, William Deterding, LeRoy Deterding, John Westerberg, LaVeta P. Countryman, Marion Chapman, Francis A. Benedetti, Marlea Benedetti, and Redi Farms, a partnership, entrants-appellees.
R.C. Stephenson, Wray, for John Osmus, Jack Wakefield, Harvey Pletcher, Gary Newton, Dale Zuege, Gleason Dryden, Dallas Godsey, Melvin Stults, John Kerbs, James Merritt, George Fix, Loren Walter, William Groves, Ronnald R. Akey, Clayton H. Roundtree, Debra J. Roundtree, entrants-appellees.
Vranesh, Raisch & Aron, Michael D. Shimmin, Boulder, for The Central Yuma County Ground Water Management Dist., The Sandhills Ground Water Management Dist., The Frenchman Ground Water Management Dist., and The Marks Butte Ground Water Management Dist., entrants-appellees.
Steven E. Shinn, Yuma, for Frank Cantrall, Opal Cantrall, Benny Cantrall, Diana Cantrall, Norman Hays, and Diane Hays, entrants-appellees.
Kent J. Fennie, Yuma, for John W. Roth, Marvin McDonald, Mill Iron Diamond Cattle Company, a Colo. corporation, Trautman Farms, Inc., a Colo. corporation, KD Farms, Inc., a Colo. corp., Kenneth V. Mitchell, RMR Ranch Co., a Colo. corp., Richard and Beverly Pappenheim, Dean V. Koenig, Dexter L. and Jenny L. Robertson, Kathleen S. Koenig, Big Mac Farms, a Colo. corp., Bruce W. Hall, Ray Gardner, Eugene Beauprez, Big Valley Ranch, Inc., a Colo. corp., Robert Seward, Dean Miller, Richard R. Hemphill, and Gerald R. Koenig, entrants-appellees.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.
ERICKSON, Justice.
This is an appeal of the decision in three consolidated water cases brought by Pioneer Irrigation Districts against the State Engineer in the District Court in and for Water Division 1. The water court held that it lacked original subject matter jurisdiction to hear cases involving the taking of ground water in a designated ground water basin because of our decision in State ex rel. Danielson v. Vickroy,627 P.2d 752
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