SPANISH FORK WEST FIELD IRR. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8994.

9 Utah 2d 428 (1959)

347 P.2d 184

SPANISH FORK WEST FIELD IRRIGATION COMPANY, A CORPORATION, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS AND RESPONDENTS, v. UNITED STATES, A NATION, ET AL., DEFENDANTS, STATE ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF UTAH, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

December 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Budge, Atty. Gen., Robert B. Porter, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Elias Hansen, Salt Lake City, Christenson, Novak, Paulson & Taylor, Provo, for respondent.

A. Pratt Kesler, U.S. Atty., Salt Lake City, for defendant United States.


WADE, Justice.

Plaintiffs represent the water users of the five original canal companies which were the first appropriators of the waters of the Spanish Fork River. They seek a declaratory judgment that their rights to use up to 390 cubic feet per second of the Spanish Fork River water are prior to the rights of the United States. They also seek a declaration that under their contracts with the United States for supplemental waters from the Strawberry Valley Reservoir...

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