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WAYMAN v. MURRAY CITY CORPORATION

No. 11211.

458 P.2d 861 (1969)

23 Utah 2d 97

Louis WAYMAN et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. MURRAY CITY CORPORATION, a municipal corporation of the State of Utah; and Wayne D. Criddle, State Engineer of the State of Utah (Hubert C. Lambert, successor to Wayne D. Criddle as State Engineer), Defendants and Appellants. Kennecott Copper Corporation, Salt Lake City Corporation, and South Milford Well Pumpers Association, Amici Curiae.

Supreme Court of Utah.

September 17, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Novak, Salt Lake City, for Murray City Corporation.

Dallin W. Jensen, Salt Lake City, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State Engineer.

E.J. Skeen, Salt Lake City, for respondents.

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

In contest here are rights to water, as to amounts and pressure, in an underground water basin, known as the Murray Artesian Basin. It underlies an area in and adjacent to Murray City, lying between the Wasatch Mountains on the east and the Jordan River on the west. Plaintiffs are five families who own residences along Vine Street in Murray. Each has one or more smart wells (1 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter) of varying depths. Each owns established...

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