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Show LARAMIE RIVER LITIGATION 689 to continue to exercise the right now existing and hereby recognized to divert and take from the headwaters of Deadman Creek, a Colorado tributary of the Laramie River, the relatively small amount of water appropriated therefrom prior to the year 1902 by and through what is designated in the evidence as the Wilson Supply Ditch; nor prejudice or affect the right of the State of Colorado or the State of Wyoming, or of any one recognized by either State as duly entitled thereto, to continue to exercise the right to divert and use water from Sand Creek, sometimes spoken of as a tributary of the Laramie River, in virtue of any existing and lawful appropriation of the waters of such creek; And it is also considered, ordered, and decreed that the costs of this suit be apportioned among and paid by the parties thereto as follows: The State of Wyoming one-third, the State of Colorado one-third, and the two corporate defendants jointly one-third. And it is further considered, ordered, and decreed that the clerk of this Court do transmit to the chief magistrates of the States of Colorado and Wyoming copies of this decree duly authenticated under the seal of this Court. Wyoming v. Colorado 286 U.S. 494 (1932) On" motion to dismiss an original suit for the purpose of enforcing a decree in an earlier suit between the two States. Mr. Justice Van Devajsttek delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a suit brought by (the State of Wyoming against the State of Colorado to enforce a decree of this Court (259 U.S. 419, 496; 260 U.S. 1), rendered in an earlier suit between the same States respecting their relative rights to divert and use for irrigation the waters of the Laramie River, a stream rising in Colorado and flowing northward into Wyoming. In the present bill, shortly described, Wyoming alleges that Colo- rado is departing from that decree by permitting the diversion and use within her territory of waters of the Laramie in quantities largely in excess of those accorded to her by the decree; that these excessive diversions are preventing Wyoming from receiving and using the amount of water which the decree accorded to her; that Colorado, unless restrained by this Court, will continue to permit such excessive diversions and thereby will largely or entirely deprive Wyoming of the use of the water accorded to her in the decree; that the measuring devices installed by Colorado to measure the waters diverted, within her territory do not accurately show the full quantities so diverted; and that Colorado refuses, although duly requested, to permit Wyo- ming to install other suitable devices or participate in the measurements. The bill construes the decree as determining the rights of the two States in the waters of the Laramie by according to Colorado- 1. 18,000 acre-feet of water per annum by reason of the Skyline ditch appropriation |