Court Opinion

ID: 9563933
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:50:41.169043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:08.924052
License: Public Domain

McGHEE, Justice (specially concurring). The attorneys for the city did nothing to prevent the entry of the order approving the report of the special master and the signing of the judgment although they knew of the action the judge intended to take. I consider such inaction constituted a waiver of the conditions of the stipulation, and a tacit consent to the entry of the judgment without further ado. The record made before Judge Arledge prior to the appointment of the master clearly showed the plaintiffs had been paid for their water rights in this ditch by the Rio Grande Conservancy District many years before the claimed damages which formed the basis for this suit. In later years they were given surplus water when it was available but during the year for which damages were granted there was no surplus water and none was turned into the ditch involved in this case, so there was absolutely no basis for the damages awarded for loss of crops in the year named in the report and judgment. I concur in the result.