Broder v. Water Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that section 9 of the Act of 1866 “was rather a voluntary recognition of a pre-existing right of possession, constituting a valid claim to its continued use, than the establishment of a new one”
• water rights on public lands are rights “which the government had ... recognized and encouraged and was bound to protect”
• Court noted conduct of government encouraging development of mines and construction of canals and ditches on public domain

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