ST. JOHNS IRR. & DITCH CO. v. ARIZONA WATER

No. 1 CA-CIV 4437.

127 Ariz. 350 (1980)

621 P.2d 37

ST. JOHNS IRRIGATION AND DITCH COMPANY, an Arizona Corporation; Lyman Water Company, an Arizona Corporation; Round Valley Water Users Association, an Arizona Corporation; The Springerville Water Rights and Ditch Company, an Arizona Corporation, Petitioners-Appellees, v. ARIZONA WATER COMMISSION, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1980.

Review Denied December 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Corbin, Atty. Gen. by Thomas Prose, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ralph E. Hunsaker, Phoenix, for respondent-appellant.

Platt & Hall, P.C. by Mitchel D. Platt, St. Johns, for petitioners-appellees.


OPINION

FROEB, Presiding Judge.

The waters of the Upper Little Colorado River and its tributaries above the conflux of the Little Colorado River and the Carrizo drainage are the subject of this case. They are hereafter referred to for simplicity as the "waters" or "the waters of the Upper Little Colorado."

The trial court found that all of these waters have been appropriated to ownership and that only in...

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