WATERS OF HORSE SPRINGS v. STATE ENGINEER

No. 14112.

671 P.2d 1131 (1983)

In the Matter of the Determination of the Relative Rights In and To the WATERS OF HORSE SPRINGS, W. Dalton La Rue, Sr. and Juanita S. La Rue, d/b/a Winnemucca Ranch, Appellants, v. STATE ENGINEER, State of Nevada, Robert W. Marshall and Nanette Marshall, Robert Dickenson and Dorothy Dickenson, d/b/a Intermountain Land Co., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnson & Adams, Reno, for appellants.

Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., George Campbell and Linda Bailey, Deputy Attys. Gen., Carson City, Vargas & Bartlett, Reno, for respondents.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Thirty miles north of Reno gurgles Horse Springs, which rises and dies on property known as Winnemucca Ranch, owned by appellants. Horse Springs is the only water source high up on the northwest face of Tule Mountain, which essentially divides appellants' ranch from the property owned by Marshall and Dickenson (respondents). Respondents' predecessors requested that the state engineer determine...

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