GREEN v. CHAFFEE DITCH COMPANY

No. 19347.

371 P.2d 775 (1962)

Conrad C. GREEN and Lillian Green, Melville Ray Young, Edith A. Young, Laporte School District 64, Thomas Melville Young, The City of Fort Collins, Colorado, J. W. Breazeale, Milton Coy Hoffman and Lydia Hoffman Morrison, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The CHAFFEE DITCH COMPANY et al., Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

March & Wells, Fort Collins, Holme, Roberts, More & Owen, John M. Dickson, Denver, for plaintiffs in error.

Albert P. Fischer, Ward H. Fischer, James D. Beatty, Fort Collins, for protestants Chaffee Ditch Co., Jackson Ditch Co., Water Supply & Storage Co. and Pleasant Valley & Lake Canal Co.

Robert G. Smith, William E. Bohlender, Greeley, for protestants Larimer & Weld Irr. Co., Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co., Windsor Reservoir & Canal Co. and Cache la Poudre Irrigating Ditch Co.

Ronald H. Strahle, Fort Collins, for protestants Arthur Irr. Co., Warren Lake Reservoir Co., New Mercer Ditch Co. and Larimer County Canal No. 2 Irrigating Co.

William H. Allen, William C. Stover, Eugene E. Mitchell, Fort Collins, for protestants North Poudre Irr. Co., Box Elder Ditch Co., Josh Ames Ditch, Taylor & Gill Ditch Co., Don Nesbitt and Adele Nesbitt.

William R. Kelly, Greeley, for protestants New Cache la Poudre Irr. Co. and Cache la Poudre Reservoir Co.

Thomas A. Richardson, Greeley, for protestant City of Greeley.


MOORE, Justice.

The action in the trial court was commenced by plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs or by name, who sought a decree changing the point of diversion of water from the Cache la Poudre river in Larimer county. Defendants in error, to whom we will refer as protestants or by name, were appropriators of water from the same stream and protested the requested change of point of diversion.

The city of Fort Collins entered into...

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