STATE v. DAVIS

No. 6228.

319 P.2d 207 (1957)

63 N.M. 322

STATE of New Mexico, on the relation of John H. BLISS, State Engineer, Appellant, v. J. C. DAVIS, V. L. Gates, Lottie L. Parkhill, Nan Parkhill Jones, Mary Elizabeth Parkhill, George B. Parkhill, John H. Parkhill, Dora D. Purcell, and William B. Parkhill, Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

December 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred M. Standley, Atty. Gen., Charles D. Harris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Roswell, for appellant.

Donald Brown, Roswell, Wm. M. Siegenthaler, Artesia, for appellee Davis.

Neil B. Watson, Artesia, for appellee Gates.

Frazier & Cusack, Roswell, for remaining appellees.


SADLER, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State on the relation of John H. Bliss as State Engineer from a decree of the district court of Eddy County refusing to enjoin the defendant at the instance of relator from taking waters from the Pecos River for irrigating certain lands described in the complaint and dismissing the complaint filed in said cause seeking such relief.

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