Huntington & Guerry, Inc. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the appropriators’ right to use the water [from a permit-exempt well] is subject to rights with priority in time”
• “The legislature’s choice of different words in another subsection of the same statute in which RCW 90.54.020(3)(a) appears shows that a different meaning is intended.”
• “[A] minimum flow or level cannot impair existing water rights and a later application for a water permit cannot be approved if the water right sought would impair the minimum flow or level.”
• use of certain terms in other legislation indicates that the legislature was aware of the importance and meaning of the terms and their choice of other words in the statute in question shows a different meaning was intended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).