Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-08-25 | Page 5 | Other Counties Heard From

OTHER COUNTIES FROM weber county farmers are not alone in their litigious contests over water A report comes from cache county that contempt of coart injunctions etc are all being enacted there judge maughan at logan yesterday handed down his decisions in the hyrum water case the hyrum alti ganta were adjudged guilty of con tempt in violating the term of a court decree but no penalty wag imposed as the violation was not wilful but simply due to a different construction being put upon the decree that placed upon it by the court the hyrum people contended that they were entitled und erthe decree to one half of the water in the stream inand all the seepage that came in after claimed halt the water in the stream and all seepage that came in after passing the dam AS this seepage water furnished as large a stream as either of the litigating parties had it was no small consideration hyrum will now bring a suit to have the decree reformed and long and expensive litigation Is jn sight A