United States v. Thomas Webster

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How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he evidence clearly shows at least forty years of continuous nonuse of the water rights . . . such a long period of nonuse is strong evidence of an intent to abandon the water rights.” (emphasis added)
• water rights are subject to abandonment; “[t]he appropriation of water is based on its beneficial use. When the appropriator or his successor interest abandons or ceases to use the water for its beneficial use, the water right ceases.”

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