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WYOMING v. COLORADO

No. 15, Original.

286 U.S. 494 (1932)

WYOMING v. COLORADO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Paul W. Lee, with whom Messrs. Clarence L. Ireland, Attorney General of Colorado, Charles Roach, Deputy Attorney General, Fred A. Harrison, Assistant Attorney General, C.D. Todd, Wm. R. Kelly, George H. Shaw, Donald C. McCreery, Wm. A. Bryans, III, and Lawrence R. Temple were on the brief, for the defendant in support of the motion to dismiss.

Mr. James A. Greenwood, Attorney General of Wyoming, with whom Messrs. Richard J. Jackson, Deputy Attorney General, and Philip S. Garbutt and George W. Ferguson, Assistant Attorneys General, were on the brief, for complainant in opposition to the motion to dismiss.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by the State of Wyoming against the State of Colorado to enforce a decree of this Court (259 U.S. 419, 496; 260 U.S. 1), rendered in an earlier suit between the same States respecting their relative rights to divert and use for irrigation the waters of the Laramie River, a stream rising in Colorado and flowing northward...

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