Knight v. Grimes

How courts have described this case

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• upholding constitutionality of change in common law system of water rights
• all holding that a landowner has no property right in ground water itself, but merely has the right to take the water into possession
• all holding that a landowner has no property right in ground water itself, but merely has the right to take the water into possession
• \The notion that this right to take and use [ground]water constitutes an actual ownership of the water prior to withdrawal has been demonstrated to be legally fallacious.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).