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BEAN v. MORRIS

No. 122.

221 U.S. 485 (1911)

31 S.Ct. 703

55 L.Ed. 821

BEAN v. MORRIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.J. Walsh, with whom Mr. George W. Pierson and Mr. Cornelius B. Nolan were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. William M. Ellison, with whom Mr. Alexander M. McCoy was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought by the respondent, Morris, to prevent the petitioners from so diverting the waters of Sage Creek in Montana as to interfere with an alleged prior right of Morris, by appropriation, to two hundred and fifty inches of such waters in Wyoming. Afterwards the other respondent, Howell, was allowed to intervene and make a similar claim. Sage Creek is a...

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