STATE v. LEWIS

No. 7393.

394 P.2d 593 (1964)

74 N.M. 442

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. S.E. REYNOLDS, State Engineer, and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. L.T. LEWIS et al., Boone Jones, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied August 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, Charles D. Harris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Roswell, for appellees.

William M. Siegenthaler, Artesia, for appellants.


NOBLE, Justice.

Defendant Lewis has appealed from an order entered in Omnibus Cause Number 20294, Chaves County, by which defendants' water right in the Roswell Artesian Basin was determined to be for 23.1 acres rather than for 30.3 acres claimed.

The evidence was heard by a special master, all of whose findings and conclusions, insofar as pertinent to the issues in this appeal, were approved and adopted by the trial court. While the attack here is upon the...

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