CF&I Steel Corp. v. Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District (1973)
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McKenna v. Witte (2015)
Cf. CF & I Steel Corp. v. Purgatoire River Water Conservancy Dist., 183 Colo. 135 , 515 P.2d 456 , 458 (1973) ("[A] gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights.").
"[A] gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights."
C F & I Steel, 183 Colo. at 140, 515 P.2d at 458.
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79 Ranch, Inc. v. Pitsch (1983)
This gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights." [Citations omitted] CF & I Steel Corporation, 515 P.2d at 458. 79 Ranch's predecessor in interest, Ralph Schaff, stated that he was a dry land farmer and didn't know how to irrigate.
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79 Ranch, Inc. v. Pitsch (1981)
This gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights." CF & I Steel, 515 P.2d at 458.
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State Ex Rel. Office of the State Eng'r v. Gray (2021)
In CF & I Steel Corp., the user shut down a well in 1918, and by the time of trial had done nothing to maintain the well or make arrangements for alternate uses for the water for fifty-four years. 515 P.2d at 458.
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In Re the Adjudication of the Existing Rights to the Use of All the Water, Both Surface & Underground Within … (1995)
This gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights.” CF & I Steel Corporation, 515 P.2d at 458.
This gleam-in-the-eye philosophy is not consistent with the protection and preservation of existing water rights.” 79 Ranch, 204 Mont. at 433-34 ; citing CF & I, 515 P.2d at 458.
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People ex rel. Danielson v. City of Thornton (1989)
In CF & I Steel there was no evidence of any efforts to lease, sell, or otherwise use the water rights during this long period of nonuse, and CF & I had dismantled its diversion and transportation works, making it impossible to divert water ,at its decreed points. 183 Colo, at 137, 140-41, 515 P.2d at 457, 459.
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Gardner v. State (1980)
See CF&I Steel Corporation v. Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District, 183 Colo. 135 , 515 P.2d 456 (1973).