CROOKSTON CATTLE v. MINN. DEPT. OF NAT. RES.

No. 50134.

300 N.W.2d 769 (1980)

CROOKSTON CATTLE COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Respondent, City of Crookston, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Popham, Haik, Schnobrich, Kaufman & Doty, Raymond A. Haik and Desyl L. Peterson, Minneapolis, for appellants.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., C. Paul Faraci, Deputy Atty. Gen., James M. Schoessler, Carl M. Conney, and Steven J. Johnson, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for Minn. Dept. of Natural Resources.

Brink, Sobolik, Severson & Vroom and Robert K. Severson, Hallock, C. W. Kludt, Crookston, for respondents, for City of Crookston.

Jaroslav Kruta, Law Office, Warren, for Town of Lake Pleasant.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.


WAHL, Justice.

This case involves the proper allocation of groundwater between competing users. Petitioners, Crookston Cattle Company (hereinafter, the Company) and its sole owner, Ray G. Mair, appeal from an order of the Ramsey County District Court which affirmed the final order of the Acting Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (hereinafter Commissioner's order). In the challenged order, the Department of Natural Resources (hereinafter...

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