In Re Water Rights of Fort Lyon Canal Co.

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• giving effect to private contract between two appropriators in determining relative priorities
• upholding water court judgment granting a conditional decree for nontributary water and determining that, by reason of a private agreement between the parties, the later decree was superior to an earlier decree awarded to other claimants
• regardless of statutory provisions, an appropriator may by contract make its priority inferior to another

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