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· 9/16/1991

Eskelsen v. Town of Perry

Citations

  • 819 P.2d 770
  • 169 Utah Adv. Rep. 35
  • 1991 Utah LEXIS 91
  • 1991 WL 185462

How courts have described this case

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  • declining to adopt “[r]igid standards regarding proof” of pre-1903 beneficial water use
  • \An appropriative water right depends on beneficial use for its continued validity.\
  • \[T]he state is ... vitally interested in seeing that none of the waters are allowed to run to waste or go without being applied to a beneficial use for any great number of years.\ (quotation and citation omitted)

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Judges: Durham, Hall, Howe, Stewart, Zimmerman

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