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STATE v. MITCHELL

No. 6524.

345 P.2d 744 (1959)

66 N.M. 212

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. S.E. REYNOLDS, State Engineer, and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Joe MITCHELL and J.T. Mitchell, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank B. Zinn, Atty. Gen., Charles D. Harris and J. Lee Cathey, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., John F. Russell, Roswell, for appellants.

H.C. Buchly, James M.H. Cullender, Roswell, for appellees.

LUJAN, Chief Justice.

The State Engineer, appellant here, filed a petition seeking an adjudication of all underground water rights in the Roswell Artesian Basin. Appellant's request that a special master be appointed to hear the case was granted.

Joe and J.T. Mitchell, appellees, filed a separate answer in which they claimed certain water rights in portions of Sections 14 and 15, Township 14 South, Range 25 East, NMPM, Chaves County, New Mexico.

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