State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding as not unconstitutionally vague a statute providing that underground water “having reasonably ascertainable boundaries” is public water
• water right rule upon which many land purchasers had relied would not be disturbed even if it stated an incorrect rule of law
• water right rule upon which many land purchasers had relied would not be disturbed even if it stated an incorrect rule of law
• “[Ajbsolute or mathematical certainty is not required in the framing of a statute.”
• “In the nineteen years since [an earlier] decision it may be assumed that many thousands of acres ... have been sold to purchasers who relied on that decision as determining title to the right to use the water here involved____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).