UNITED STATES v. DIST. CT. OF FOURTH JUDICIAL DIST.

No. 7506.

121 Utah 1 (1951)

238 P.2d 1132

UNITED STATES v. DISTRICT COURT OF FOURTH JUDICIAL DIST. IN AND FOR UTAH COUNTY et al.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Decided December 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.J. Skeen, Dept. of Reclamation, Scott M. Matheson, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff.

Clinton D. Vernon, Atty. Gen., J. Lambert Gibson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Clair M. Aldrich, and Christenson & Christenson, Provo, for defendants.


WADE, Justice.

The United States seeks a writ, based on its sovereign immunity, to prevent the Fourth District Court from taking jurisdiction of an appeal from a decision of the state engineer approving its application for a change of the diversion place of some of its irrigation waters. These water rights were obtained by the government as appurtenances to lands acquired in the construction of the Deer Creek reservoir, which...

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