GARDNER v. STATE

No. 80SA8.

614 P.2d 357 (1980)

Rueben F. GARDNER and Pauline M. Gardner, Donald C. Dorrell and Joann Dorrell, Glen E. McCormick and Beverly E. McCormick, Arthur James Estes and Shelia Rhae Estes, George R. Broughton and Vernice M. Broughton, Larry E. Loesch and Jackqueline L. Loesch, Okey D. Squires, and Arlia M. Squires, Verner D. Mead and Elma M. Mead, Olive S. Johnson, Charles McAlary, William H. Haynes, and John Savage, Applicants-Appellants, v. STATE of Colorado, Lee R. Enewold, Division Engineer, Water Division No. 5, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

July 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delaney & Balcomb, Kenneth Balcomb, Glenwood Springs, for applicants-appellants.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Dennis M. Montgomery, David Aschkinasi, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for appellees.


QUINN, Justice.

This appeal raises the question whether the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969 (Water Right Act), section 37-92-101 et seq., C.R.S.1973, permits the water judge, in connection with an application for a determination of abandonment filed under section 37-92-302(1)(a), C.R.S.1973, to enter a decree that certain water rights of unknown persons have been abandoned, when the only notice of the application is its inclusion in...

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