Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District v. Fort Lyon Canal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the state may own shares of mutual ditch company stock despite the prohibition on state ownership of stock contained in Article XI, section 2, of the Colorado Constitution
• “[I]t is clear that stock ownership in a mutual ditch company constitutes ownership of a real property interest in water rights rather than a personal property interest in corporate stock.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).