State Ex Rel. State Engineer v. Commissioner of Public Lands

How courts have described this case

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• “The appropriation of water for beneficial use establishes the priority date of a water right in relation to other water rights, and the full right of an earlier appropriator will be protected, to the extent of that appropriator’s use, against a later appropriator.”

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