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The Amity Mutual Irrigation Company 1510 Attorney's Report To The Amity Mutual Irrigation Compony To the Stockholders of The Amity Mutual Irrigation Compan,y. It is always a pleasant experience for your attorneys to be able to submit to you ,yet another annual report on the legal aspects of your com~ pan:y's operation during the past year. During the ,year last past, ,your attorneys, as always, handled and passed on various legal matters of a routine nature which arise from an operation of the type conducted by the Amit,"', Unfortunately some of the problems of a legal nature are not routine in an,}' respect and are of major concern to every stockholder in the A.mity system. With respect to these problems we report to ,you as follows concerning major litigation in which your company is, to any degree involved: We reported to ,you in some detail in a former report concerning the law suit pending in the District Court of Bent County and 3Tising out o[ damage which the Plainti!l claimed arose out of the ncgligencl;' of the Amity Canal during the 1965fiood,andfor sake of brevity these will not be repeated here. Th.is suit is being defended by your attorne.ys in conjunction with the law firm of Phelps, Fonda & Hays of Pueblo. There have been no significant developments in this case since our last report although there has been some activity therein in the nature o[ dis_ covery proceedings, etc. as provided by the Colorado Rules of Civil Pro- cedure. No trial date has yet been set for a hearing of this case on its merits. Unfortunately, during the .year 1967 we became involved in additional litigation when the Amity was sued for damage s in the actual amount of $35,031.00 plus $25.000.00 in punitive damages all of which the Plaintiff claims were caused by the Amity negligenU,)' flooding his land during the years 01 19M, 1965 and 1967. Page 7