BROADWATER-MISSOURI WATER USERS' ASS'N v. MONTANA P. CO.

No. 10350.

139 F.2d 998 (1944)

BROADWATER-MISSOURI WATER USERS' ASS'N et al. v. MONTANA POWER CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 4, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. V. Bottomly, Atty. Gen., C. J. Dousman, of Helena, Mont., E. Ben Johnson and Burcham & Blair, all of Spokane, Wash., Edmond G. Toomey, of Helena, Mont., and Willard W. Gatchell, Atty., Federal Power Commission, of Washington, D.C., for appellants State Water Conservation Board and others.

Wellington D. Rankin, of Helena, Mont., and Frank T. Hooks, of Townsend, Mont., for appellant, Broadwater Missouri Water Users' Ass'n.

W. H. Hoover, R. H. Glover, John V. Dwyer, and J. E. Corette, Jr., all of Butte, Mont., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, DENMAN, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The Montana Power Company, incorporated in New Jersey, is engaged in the business of generating and distributing electric power in the state of Montana. It brought suit in the federal court for Montana against the State Water Conservation Board, the individual members thereof, and the Broadwater-Missouri Water Users' Association (an organization of the settlers in the Broadwater-Missouri irrigation project).

In its complaint the Power...

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