Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-03-01 | Page 16 | Answer Filed in Case Important Ot Farmers

MR FILED IN CASE lijPORMTO FARMERS T 1 Z Answer to a court action started everal weeks a (to by the bevferi' Canal company and associated In-1 tvrests SK-ainnt the state of L'tah and! Pie Piute Reservoir and Irrigation ! ' tuompany was filed in the Third dis-arlct dis-arlct court yesterday. The case was froue-ht more than year ajro by the Hnaolldated companies to determine i' the status of what Is known as the ; Raw ley filing, involving; the storina rijrhts of the Sevier Bridge reservoir and the Piute reservoir. The com-' panies Include the Sevier Canal ' Company, the Hevier Land and Water, aompany. the Deaeret Jrrifration com-puny, com-puny, the Delta, Canal company, the i R Hville Irrtiratlon company and the ; )l,rranam Irrtffation company. i The answer yesterday set forth that ! tT 'state claims that the Hawley ( pint" was Indefinite, and that, when he Hevier bridge reservoir was com-Leted com-Leted and left at a certain hels-hl 1 w4ii a certain capacity for so long-,' le amounted to an announcement to the world that the company had fin- ' hed the project. Te consolidated oom panies have claimed the right to mrreaae thte capacity of their res-1 ewntrs, contending that the original l a wiry tiling provided tot such aWt-reeise 4