FARMERS IRRIGATING DITCH & RESERVOIR CO. v. KANE

No. 85-2917.

845 F.2d 229 (1988)

FARMERS IRRIGATING DITCH & RESERVOIR COMPANY, a Colorado mutual ditch company, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nick KANE, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Haynes (Joseph C. French of French & Stone, P.C., with him on the brief), Boulder, Colo., for defendants-appellants.

Robert W. Brandes, Jr. of March, Myatt, Korb, Carroll & Brandes, Fort Collins, Colo., for Farmers Irrigating Ditch & Reservoir Co., plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SEYMOUR and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and SAFFELS, District Judge.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

This interpleader action has its genesis in a flood. Farmers Irrigating Ditch & Reservoir Company, a Colorado mutual ditch company with its principal place of business in Loveland, Colorado (hereinafter referred to as "Farmers"), was the owner of a reservoir known as Lawn Lake in Larimer County, Colorado. On July 12, 1982, an embankment of the Lawn Lake Reservoir broke and released a great amount of water which flowed down and through...

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