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JAEGER v. COLORADO GROUND WATER COM'N

No. 85SA287.

746 P.2d 515 (1987)

William Q. JAEGER d/b/a Cornhusker Farms, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLORADO GROUND WATER COMMISSION, and Northern Trust Company, as Trustee Under the Will of Charles H. Krause, Anne Seyfried and Thelma Vonhazmburg; Lost Creek Ground Water Management District, for Itself and on Behalf of Richard Andrews; Daryl Arnold; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Bartlett; Conrad Bauer; Rodney W. Baumgartner; Alan D. Berryman; Merl Dunham; Al Hofferber; Johnson Enterprises; Victor R. Klein; Blanch M. Preston; Ronald Schlagel; Catherin Schlagel; Abbott Farms, Inc.; Andreas Arnusch; Franz Arnusch; Hans Arnusch; Nikolaus Arnusch; Mr. and Mrs. William Asher; Charley Baumgartner; Dave Baumgartner; Earl Baumgartner; Leonard Baumgartner; Ruben Baumgartner; Terry E. Baumgartner; Frieda Becker; Harry E. Becker; Dayton G. Bell; Forrest M. Bell; William H. Bell; William C. Busch; George H. Busch; J.H. Casper; Rodney A. Cuykendall; Alfred R. Cuykendall; George Dalrymple; John E. Epple; Russell C. Epple; Elmer G. Foss; George G. Glenn; Maurice Gorges; Francis A. Gnadt; Marvin L. Helzer; Harold Huwa; Herman Huwa; Richard F. Huwa; Jim Ishida; James R. Jakel; Johnie Jakel; Dale A. Johnson; August Kitzman; Kauffman Bros.; Bruce Kauffman; Raymond Kauffman; Elmer Kauffman; E. Leonard Keller; Thomas J. Klausner; Edward H.D. Kotz; Glenn H. Lewton; Harold L. Lewton; John Mitzel; Richard Parker; John H. Reid; Ivan Robertson; Anna Robertson; Roggen Lions Club; Courtland Rybicka; Sargent Farms, Inc.; Clem J. Schrant; Joel Schoeneman; Gerald E. Sigg; Isabel Sirios; Donald L. Sloan; Paul Smith; Southeast Weld Soil Conservation District; Raymond Trupp; Donald H. Vogel; Jacob Vogel; Leo Mark Vrbas; Leo R. Vrbas; Homer H. Warren; Dennis Weichel; Edward N. Weickum; Edwin L. Weickum; Andy Zimbelman; Donald J. Zimbelman; Jack W. Zimbelman; John Zimbelman, Jr.; Kenneth L. Zimbelman; Ted Zimbelman; Leon Zimbelman, as Objectors, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saunders, Snyder, Ross & Dickson, P.C., Melvin B. Sabey, John M. Dickson, William B. Tourtillott, Jr., Denver, for plaintiff-appellant.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Wendy C. Weiss, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Natural Resources Section, Denver, for defendant-appellee Colo. Ground Water Com'n.

Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff, P.C., Raphael J. Moses, David M. Brown, Veronica A. Perling, Boulder, Robert W. Giacomini, Sterling, for defendants-appellees other than Colo. Ground Water Com'n, Alan D. Berryman and Victor R. Klein.

Alan D. Berryman, pro se.

Victor R. Klein, pro se.

LOHR, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Weld County District Court affirming a decision of the Colorado Ground Water Commission ("Commission") that denied six applications for conditional permits to appropriate ground water in the Lost Creek Designated Ground Water Basin. We agree with the district court that an intent to appropriate designated ground water for beneficial use, not for speculation, must be established before such an application can...

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