UNITED STATES v. BALLARD

Civ. No. 4194.

184 F.Supp. 1 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. H. F. BALLARD, M. M. Bradley, George C. Brumble, Leroy Caffall, Arthur J. Mayes, John Mayes, A. M. Leeman, George Smart, Vera Lamb, Vola Ryan and Gene Hood, Defendants. State Game Commission of the State of New Mexico, Intervenor.

United States District Court D. New Mexico.

June 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Borland, U. S. Atty., by Ruth C. Streeter, Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alfred H. O. Boudreau, Jr., David R. Warner, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., by Warren R. Wise, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Neal, Neumann & Neal, by Caswell S. Neal, Carlsbad, N. M., for defendants.

Hilton A. Dickason, Jr., Atty. Gen., Thomas O. Olson, Lyle E. Teutsch, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., by Lyle E. Teutsch, Jr., Santa Fe, N. M., for Intervenor.


ROGERS, District Judge.

This is a Water Law case, involving lands in Southeastern New Mexico, in Eddy County, wherein the United States of America brings this Action in behalf of Carlsbad Caverns National Park against some nine individual private owners of land in that section of the country. The State Game Commission of the State of New Mexico has intervened herein, to establish a water right to use .44 cubic feet per second of the flow of Rattlesnake Spring, claiming...

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