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CITY OF RATON v. VERMEJO CONSERVANCY DIST.

No. 14773.

678 P.2d 1170 (1984)

101 N.M. 95

CITY OF RATON, New Mexico, a municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VERMEJO CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, a corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 29, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil Stillinger, Watson, Stillinger & Lunt, Sarah Michael Singleton, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellee.

Robert S. Skinner, Raton, Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison & Woodruff, Boulder, Colo., for plaintiff-appellant.

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

In 1935 the Colfax County District Court issued a decree adjudicating water rights in the Chico Rico, or Sugarite, stream system of Northern Colfax County. In 1980 the City of Raton (Raton) filed a declaratory judgment action against Vermejo Conservancy District (District) seeking a determination of the rights of those parties under the 1935 decree. The District counterclaimed, basing...

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