ECOLOGY v. ACQUAVELLA

No. 48892-4.

100 Wn.2d 651 (1983)

674 P.2d 160

THE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, Respondent, v. JAMES J. ACQUAVELLA, ET AL, Defendants, SUNNYSIDE VALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT, Petitioner.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Flower & Andreotti, Charles C. Flower, and Patrick Andreotti, for petitioner.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Charles B. Roe, Jr., Senior Assistant, for respondent.


PEARSON, J.

This case involves a procedural due process issue that arises at an interlocutory phase of a complex statutory water rights adjudication of the surface waters in the Yakima River Basin. The issue is whether due process requires personal service of process on all individual water users who get their water under contract from water distributing entities, or whether service on those entities is sufficient. The trial court held that due process requirements...

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