Court Opinion

ID: 9597316
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:57:45.68362+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:54:27.902495
License: Public Domain

*72HARGRAVE, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur with the majority only insofar as the opinion reverses the District Court’s ruling that ground water may not be used off of the land from which it is taken. Despite appearances, transportation of ground water is the single issue properly before this Court on appeal. Appellants’ petition in error contains eleven assignments of error, and their brief argues four of those assignments. Conspicuously absent is any mention of waste, and the absence of that issue was noted by the Water Resources Board in a brief filed in response to this Court’s sua sponte enlargement of the issues.
The water transport issue was appealed in a timely fashion — the remaining issues were unappealed and are now final and unappealable. Addressing other issues is a departure from acceptable appellate practice and is an unwarranted exercise of judicial power.
I am authorized to state that LAVENDER, J., joins in the views expressed herein.