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DECHERT v. CHRISTOPULOS

No. 5144.

604 P.2d 1039 (1980)

Charles H. DECHERT, R.H. Pattison, Dave Pince, Stan R. Roden, Alan R. Pattison, Dick Pattison, Paul A. Christensen, Kenneth O. Fleenor, Myron C. Jarvis, George Pingetzer, Wayne Wilson, Lloyd Dechert, Ward Whitman, Stanley Bryant, R.L. Medow, and Farrell Grough, Individually and as members of the Midvale Irrigation District, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellants (Plaintiffs below), v. George CHRISTOPULOS, Wyoming State Engineer, the United States of America, acting through the Department of Interior, and Bureau of Reclamation, The Riverton Valley Irrigation District, and the LeClair Riverton Irrigation District, and all others similarly situated, Appellees (Defendants below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Burgess of Burgess & Davis, and Dan B. Riggs of Lonabaugh & Vanderhoef, Sheridan, for appellants.

John D. Troughton, Atty. Gen., and Jack D. Palma, II, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for George Christopulos, Wyoming State Engineer, appellee.

Charles E. Graves, U.S. Atty., and Tosh Suyematsu, Asst. U.S. Atty., Cheyenne, Sanford Sagalkin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and Nancy B. Firestone, Regina L. Sleater and Carl Strass, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S., appellee.

Houston G. Williams of Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, P.C, Casper, for Riverton Valley Irrigation Dist. and LeClair Riverton Irrigation Dist., appellees.

Before RAPER, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ., and GUTHRIE, J., Retired.

ROSE, Justice.

This case principally concerns Fremont County, Wyoming, litigants and is mostly a contest among members of and the Midvale Irrigation District (hereafter Midvale), plaintiffs-appellants, and members of and the Riverton Valley (hereafter Riverton) and the LeClair Riverton (hereafter LeClair) Irrigation Districts, defendants-appellees. The central issue is whether, in 1917, the State of Wyoming, through the Board of Land Commissioners (hereafter the Board...

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