Mt. Morris Sportsmen's Ass'n v. Boyers

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• holding a water rights applicant could not substitute records of use made through an undecreed point of diversion to establish historical beneficial use
• noting that the meaning of “beneficial use” “tracks legislative enactments, court decisions, and, principally, the acts of appropriators who control water to their purposes” (emphasis added)
• stating \the engineer's administration decisions do not determine the property rights of appropriators\
• stating \the engineer's administration decisions do not determine the property rights of appropriators\
• unlawful use of water for over 30 years could not be considered for determining historic use
• \[The right to change a water right is limited to that amount of water actually used beneficially pursuant to the decree at the appropriator's place of use.\

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