MERIT L. & C. CO., INC. v. SOUTHEASTERN COLO. W.C. DIST.

No. 26588.

534 P.2d 620 (1975)

MERIT LAND & CATTLE COMPANY, INC., a Colorado Corporation, Applicant-Appellant, and Colorado Water Protective and Development Association, a Colorado non-profit Corporation, Appellant, v. SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT and Division Engineer or Water Division No. 2, Objectors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearings May 12, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saunders, Snyder & Ross, P. C., Glenn G. Saunders, W. B. Tourtillott, Jr., Denver, for applicant-appellant Merit Land & Cattle Co.

Davis, Graham & Stubbs, William A. Hillhouse II, Clyde O. Martz, Lenard D. Rioth, Denver, for appellant, Colorado Water Protective and Development Assn.

James D. Geissinger, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, Fairfield & Woods, Charles J. Beise, Howard Holme, Denver, for objectors-appellees.


GROVES, Justice.

This case was consolidated in this court with Appeal No. 26311, In the Matter of the Application for Water Rights of Merit Land & Cattle Company, Inc., 534 P.2d 618, as the two cases concern the same parties and issues. The opinion in No. 26311 is being announced contemporaneously with this opinion. We concluded to write a separate opinion here as the disposition by the trial court of this case was somewhat different...

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