Carroll v. Vance & Loggie’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A complaint, in an action by a senior appropriator to restrain an unlawful diversion of water, which merely alleges that plaintiff has a priority superior to that of the defendant, with which the defendant is interfering, is but a mere conclusion of law, and is not a sufficient statement of ultimate facts constituting a prior appropriation, but it is necessary to state the facts which show such appropriation and its priority.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Comstock v. Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co.