S.D. WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. WATER MGT. BD.

Nos. 14760, 14816, 14820.

382 N.W.2d 26 (1986)

SOUTH DAKOTA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, a South Dakota Nonprofit Corporation, and Roger Pries, Appellees, v. WATER MANAGEMENT BOARD, State of South Dakota (# 14760 and # 14820), Appellant. SOUTH DAKOTA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, a South Dakota Nonprofit Corporation, and Roger Pries, Appellants, v. WATER MANAGEMENT BOARD, State of South Dakota (# 14816), Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided January 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Klinkel of Richardson, Groseclose, Kornmann, Wyly, Wise & Klinkel, Aberdeen, for South Dakota Wildlife Federation and Roger Pries.

Daniel J. Doyle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., Pierre, on brief, for Water Management Bd.

William E. Coester, Milbank, for amicus curiae, Waubay Lake Ass'n and Sylvester Wika.


HENDERSON, Justice.

ACTION

This is an appeal from a circuit court judgment which reversed a decision of the South Dakota Water Management Board. The Water Management Board's decision established the ordinary high water mark for Waubay Lake at the elevation of 1,787.0 feet mean sea level. The circuit court's judgment reversed this decision and established the Waubay Lake ordinary high water mark at the elevation of 1,799.3 feet mean sea level. We reverse...

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