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O'NEIL v. NORTHERN COLORADO IRRIGATION CO.

No. 68.

242 U.S. 20 (1916)

37 S.Ct. 7

61 L.Ed. 123

O'NEIL v. NORTHERN COLORADO IRRIGATION COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 20, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Fred R. Wright, with whom Mr. Charles D. Hayt, Mr. Clyde C. Dawson, and Mr. G.K. Hartenstein were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. L.F. Twitchell, with whom Mr. Fred Farrar, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, Mr. Luther M. Goddard and Mr. Paul M. Clark were on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a complaint brought by the plaintiff in error to quiet his title to alleged water rights on Tarryall Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River, and to enjoin the defendant Irrigation Company and the state officials from closing the plaintiff's ditch under an assertion of the Irrigation Company's superior right. The defendants justified under a decree establishing the Irrigation Company's priority and...

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