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STATE EX REL. REYNOLDS v. LEWIS

No. 9201.

508 P.2d 577 (1973)

84 N.M. 768

STATE of NEW Mexico, ex rel. S.E. REYNOLDS, State Engineer, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. L.T. LEWIS et al., James Thigpen et al., Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees. STATE of New Mexico, ex rel. S.E. REYNOLDS, State Engineer, et al., Plaintiffs, v. HAGERMAN CANAL CO. et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

April 5, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McAtee, Marchiondo & Berry, E. Douglas Latimer, Albuquerque, for appellants and cross-appellees.

David L. Norvell, Atty. Gen., Paul L. Bloom, Peter Thomas White, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for State Engineer.

John F. Russell, Roswell, William M. Siegenthaler, Artesia, for Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District.

OPINION

MONTOYA, Justice.

On April 9, 1956, the State Engineer and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District (Pecos Valley) filed a petition initiating the L.T. Lewis case in Chaves County, New Mexico. Plaintiffs requested that the court require defendants to describe what rights, if any, they had to the use of the waters of the Roswell Underground Water Basin, and that the court quiet title to defendants' appropriation...

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