Court Opinion

ID: 9601315
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:41:38.784306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:56.414983
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing. PER CURIAM: Treating the motion for rehearing as having been granted, and in view of the matters set out in the motion to delay mandate, that is, that the Soil Conservation Service is about to commence the construction of dams on the Pena Blanca and Moss-man Arroyos, through which flood waters flow onto appellant’s and appellees’ lands, which dams will, in the future, prevent the flooding of appellant’s and appellees’ farm lands, the necessity for the removal of the dikes set forth in the trial court’s judgment will become moot and will only cost appellant unnecessary money and labor to remove the same, the injunctive portion of the judgment is hereby stayed. The judgment appealed from is affirmed in all respects except that portion thereof which ordered and directed the defendant, Paul Price, to forthwith remove the artificial dikes constructed by him. The case is remanded to the district court with instructions to hear evidence and determine the issue as to whether work to be performed by the Soil Conservation Service makes unnecessary the removal of the dikes as ordered by the judgment filed June 11, 1962, and whether enforcement of that portion of the decree is moot by reason thereof. The motion to delay the issuance of mandate is denied. It is so ordered.