Case Name: Loup River Public Power District, appellant, v. Middle Loup Public Power and Irrigation District et al., appellees
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1942-08-07
Citations: 142 Neb. 156
Docket Number: No. 31411
Parties: Loup River Public Power District, appellant, v. Middle Loup Public Power and Irrigation District et al., appellees.
Judges: Heard before Rose, Eberly, Paine, Carter, Messmore and Yeager, JJ.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 142
Pages: 156–157

Head Matter:
Loup River Public Power District, appellant, v. Middle Loup Public Power and Irrigation District et al., appellees.
5 N. W. (2d) 249
Filed August 7, 1942.
No. 31411.
Neighbors & Danielson, for appellant.
Sorensen & Kyle, Walter R. Johnson, Attorney General, and John L. Riddell, contra.
Heard before Rose, Eberly, Paine, Carter, Messmore and Yeager, JJ.

Opinion:
Carter, J.
This is a companion case to Loup River Public Power District v. North Loup River Public Power and Irrigation District, ante, p. 141, 5 N. W. (2d) 240, released herewith. The Loup River Public Power District is plaintiff in each case. The Middle Loup Public Power and Irrigation District is a public corporation, similar in all respects to the North Loup River Public Power and Irrigation District. The defendant state officers are the same in both suits. Identical questions of law are raised in each case, the only difference in the two cases being in acreages and amounts involved in the appropriative rights of .the two defendant districts.
The law applicable to the one is applicable to the other. For the reasons stated in Loup River Public Power District v. North Loup River Public Power and Irrigation District, supra, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed.
Paine, J., dissents.