ROUND HILL GEN. IMPROVEMENT DIST. v. NEWMAN

No. 12449.

637 P.2d 534 (1981)

ROUND HILL GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation, Petitioner, and Incline Village General Improvement District, Intervening Petitioner, v. William J. NEWMAN, as state Engineer, Division of Water Resources, and Roland D. Westergard, Director, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State of Nevada, or their Successors in interest, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rahbeck, McMorris, Susich & Kolvet, Minden, for petitioner Round Hill General Improvement Dist.

Lester H. Berkson, Zephyr Cove, for intervening petitioner Incline Village General Improvement Dist.

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., and George Campbell, Deputy, Atty. Gen., Carson City, for respondents.

Woodburn, Wedge, Blakey & Jeppson, Reno, for Sierra Pac. Power Co., as amicus curiae.

Johnson, Belaustegui & Robison, Reno, and Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, Cal., for Truckee-Carson Irrigation Dist., as amicus curiae.


OPINION

ZENOFF, Senior Justice.1

Petitioner Round Hill General Improvement District (Round Hill), and intervening petitioner Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID), seek writs of mandamus to compel the State Engineer to act on their applications for permits to appropriate water from Lake Tahoe. NRS 533.325 et seq. The State Engineer has declined to act on the applications on the ground that a pending court...

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