Cook v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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1. ““It does not follow, however, that a party who now makes claims as riparian owner may not be entitled) to recognition as one who has gained rights 'by user. If, in attempting to make use of their claimed riparian rights, certain of these parties have, in fact, actually appropriated waters to their own use in addition to such waters as they may have heretofore claimed as appropriators, they may, through user, have acquired rights that should be determined in this action. Such additional rights, not being based upon such acts of procedure, sanctioned by law or custom, as would constitute in law an appropriation, would vest at the end of the period necessary to acquire same by prescription. Under the facts of the case before us, all rights so acquired would be subsequent to and inferior to those rights which the several parties may have acquired through the sanctioned methods of appropriation ; furthermore, priority as between such additional rights would be governed by the dates upon which such rights became vested in the several parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cook v. Evans