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PEOPLE v. SOUTH PLATTE WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT

Nos. 18471, 18396, 18398.

343 P.2d 812 (1959)

PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, upon the relation of Duke W. DUNBAR, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, Relator, v. SOUTH PLATTE WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation, and William E. Eppinger, B. R. Fernald, Al Hattendorf, S. F. Bales, J. D. Mayhoffer, Mills E. Bunger, Ernest Ramstetter, Neil Rosener, W. E. Scott, George L. Anderson, Rollo Shaklee, Howard P. Bunger, Henry G. Mitze, Charles H. Starks, J. William Wells, O. C. Gossett and Alfred Krogh, as Directors of the said South Platte Water Conservancy District, Respondents. Virginia W. HILL et al. v. J. David MAYHOFFER et al. Charles W. MacLEAN et al. v. J. David MAYHOFFER et al.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., John B. Barnard Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for relator, M. O. Shivers, Jr., Englewood, John M. Dickson, Denver, of counsel.

David J. Miller, Melvin Dinner, Robert G. Smith, Greeley, Wilbur M. Alter, Denver, for respondents.

Holland & Hart, Robert P. Davison, Denver, for objector, Lawrence C. Phipps, Jr.

J. F. Little, Robert H. Kiley, Denver, for objectors, John W. Jurgensen, and others.

Clayton & Gilbert, Greeley, for Northern Colo. Water Conservancy Dist.

F. T. Henry and Louis Johnson, Colorado Springs, for City of Colorado Springs.

Bentley M. McMullin, Aurora, Orrel A. Daniel, Leonard H. McCain, Brighton, George M. Graber, Arvada, Joseph J. Dolan, Boulder, C. Charles Buchler, Englewood, Karl R. Ahlborn, Greeley, John S. Hough, Longmont, R. Paul Brown, Fort Lupton, amici curiae.

MOORE, Justice.

Three cases pending in this court have been consolidated for disposition. They involve the legality of a water conservancy district allegedly created under the provisions of chapter 149, article VI, C.R.S. 1953.

The statutory procedure for the creation of such a district involves the filing of originating petitions. These must contain a fixed number of signatures of owners of lands of certain types, a description of the boundaries of the intended...

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