Case ID: colo-app_22/html/0376-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "King, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 3650.]
    Monte Vista Canal Co. et al. v. San Luis Valley Irrigated Land Co.
    In an appeal from a decree authorizing an irrigating company to change the place of diversion of the waters to which it was entitled the respondents challenged the validity or sufficiency of a deed under which the petitioner claimed title to a certain ditch and water right. Neither of these were claimed by any of the appellants, and the title being in issue only incidentally, it was held that no freehold was thus involved. A motion to remand the cause was, as to its other features, ruled by the judgment in Monte Vista Company v. Centennial Company, ante, 364.
    
      Appeal from Costilla District Court. Hon. Charles C. Holbrook, Judge.
    Messrs. Corlett & Corlett, Messrs. Goudy & Twitchell, for appellants.
    Mr. Jesse Stephenson, for appellee.
   King, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Motion is made to remand this cause to the supreme court for the reason that the decision necessarily relates to or involves a freehold. The judgment appealed from was rendered by the district court in a statutory proceeding for permission to change the point of - diversion of decreed water-rights. So far as applicable to this motion, the facts and conditions are substantially the same as in case No. 3649, The Monte Vista Canal Co. et al. v. Centennial Irrigating Ditch Co., decided at this term, with the exception that in the present case appellants have challenged the validity or sufficiency of a deed by which appellee claims title to an irrigation ditch and a water right, conveyed or attempted to be conveyed to it by the town of Alamosa. This ditch or water right is not claimed by any of the appellants, and if the title thereto is in issue in this proceeding, it is only incidentally or collaterally so, and a freehold is not thereby involved. — Harvey v. Travelers’ Ins., Co., 18 Colo., 354. McCandless v. Green, 20 Colo., 519. Callbreath v. Hug, 48 Colo., 202. For the reasons more fully stated in Monte Vista Canal Co. et al. v. Centennial Irrigating Ditch Co., supra, the motion herein to remand is denied.