IDAHO POWER CO. v. STATE

No. 13794.

661 P.2d 741 (1983)

104 Idaho 575

IDAHO POWER COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Respondent, v. The STATE of Idaho, acting By and Through the DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, the Idaho Water Resource Board, and its Executive Director, C. Stephen Allred, in his official capacity, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and The State of Idaho, acting by and through the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, and Commissioners, Robert Lenaghen, Conley Ward, and Ralph Wickberg in their official capacities; and Matthew Mullaney, John Peavey, Charles Hisaw, Diane Plastino, Jeff Fereday, Billie Thompson, L.N. "Bud" Purdy, John Falkner, Bill Arkoosh, Eslie Heinz, Harold Ingram, Ralph Ingram, Harold Huyser, Mary Mech, Gerald Tews, John Bryngelson, Clive Schell, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Respondents, and David Mickelsen, A.W. Molyneux, Morgan & Shillington, a partnership, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and Fred Tiede, Gary Tiede, Otto Tiede, James Tiede, Ferdinand Gehring, Melvin Funk, Sid Allen, Jim Pahl, Lenard Schritter, Alfred Fothergill, Marcia Pursley and J.W. Swan, as Complainants in P.U.C. Complaint, Case No. U-1006-124, Defendants-Respondents, Cross-Respondents-Cross-Appellants, and Murphy Water Company, Crane Falls Mutual Irrigation Co., Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and Nelda E. McAndrew, Defendant-Respondent-Cross-Appellant-Cross-Respondent, and Pilgram Irrigation Company and Enterprise Acres, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and Upper Grand View Canal Company, Defendant-Respondent-Cross-Respondent, and Martin K. Slane, and Mountain View Irrigation Company, Inc., aka Yahoo Company, Inc., Ronald H. Warrick, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and Cottonwood Canal Company, Defendant-Respondent-Cross-Appellant, and John Doe, and the State of Idaho, acting by and through the Department of Fish & Game, acting through its Executive Director Joseph Greenley, in his official capacity; John Peavey, Picabo Livestock, Inc., Faulkner Land & Livestock, Bill Arkoosh, Ralph Ingram, Harold Huyser, Mickelsen Farms, Inc., A.W. Molyneux, Morgan & Shillington Farm Co., a partnership, Fred Tiede, Otto Tiede, Melvin Funk, Jim Pahl, and Lenard Schritter, Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Respondents, and Mud Flat Canal Company, Defendant-Respondent-Cross-Appellant-Cross-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

March 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Nelson of Nelson, Rosholt, Robertson, Tolman & Tucker, Twin Falls, for Idaho Power Company.

David H. Leroy, Atty. Gen., Josephine P. Beeman, Howard Carsman, Deputy Attys. Gen., Boise, for C. Stephen Allred, et al.

Phillip Barber, Boise, for Water Resource Bd.

David H. Leroy, Atty. Gen., and Michael S. Gilmore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for Idaho Public Utilities Com'n.

Jeffrey R. Christenson of Anderson, Kaufman, Ringert & Clark, Boise, for Mud Flat Canal Co., Cottonwood Canal Co., Nelda E. McAndrew and Upper Grand View Canal Co.

Matthew J. Mullaney, Jr., Boise, for Paragraph XX defendants and pro se.

Ben Cavaness, American Falls, for Picabo Livestock.

Severt Swenson, Jr., Gooding, for Faulkner Land & Livestock.

Larry R. Duff of Goodman, Duff & Chisholm, Rupert, for Morgan Shillington Farm Co.

David H. Leroy, Atty. Gen. and John Vehlow, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for Idaho Dept. of Fish & Game.

Lloyd J. Walker, Twin Falls, for Pilgrim Irrigation Co. and Mountain View Irrigation Co., Yahoo Co., Inc.

Jack Murphy, Shoshone.

Fred Stewart, pro se.


ON DENIAL OF PETITION FOR REHEARING

SHEPARD, Justice.

This case involves a series of appeals from an order of the district court which granted certain motions for summary judgment, disposed of all the issues raised, and constituted a final judgment. Narrowly stated, the case involves the validity of Idaho Power's water rights at its Swan Falls power plant on the Snake River, and the case arose when Idaho Power brought the action seeking a determination of...

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